“F” is the worst grade in the United States.
- Jelena: Your teacher’s returning the math test today, right?
- Larisa: Who cares?
- Michelle: The test was pretty tough, huh?
- Larisa: Who cares?
- Teacher: That was terrible, Larisa. See me after class!
- Larisa: I do, apparently.
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So much for not caring.
You never care more than right after it’d too late to do anything about it.
Just as well she does live somewhere with an F grade, then. If she got an F at my school, it means she broke the grading system. Which, I suppose she would be capable of, just more of the comic 121 style.
Oh boy, does this take me back… 😛
Okay, fine it takes me back two semesters, but with my memory, that’s ancient history!
That’s pretty much what happens to me. If I do badly, I always think I did well until I get the grade back. If I did well, I always think that I failed until I get the grade back.
I’m trying not to hold my breath about my latest math test, especially since I thought it was so easy.
Reminds me during my college years, my first year is filled with people I love to hate sometimes. When the first year almost ended I start to act dickish, I mean, next year I will be in a different class right? who cares!
*Next year*
So, this is my class, I wonder who will be my new classmates now….
*open door*
Oh fu-
…I know I’m only adding to the ignorant American stereotype here, but what’s considered the lowest grade in other countries?
I think Larissa will be forced to join the Math study with Sandra, to help her excel her math test. Also for a one-scene wonder, that brunette girl is cute.
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/OneSceneWonder
There’s made-up grades… Peppermint Patty got straight Zs one year.
@ Pas:
1(of 10) or 10(of 100) or Zero.
@ Pas:
In Germany we use numbers: 6 is worst, 1 is best; additionally there are “+” and “-” annexes (“1-” is better then “2+”, “2+” is better then “2”) The only exception is the time of the Abitur (grade 11 – 13) were 15 is the best and 0 is the worst (there are no “+” or “-“).
@ Pas:
In Germany, 1 means “very good”, 4 means you just passed, 5 that you just didn’t pass, and 6 means you failed so much that passing wasn’t anywhere near.
teachers! they make you care!
F for fantastic, and the teacher calls it terrible because he hates Larisa?
The characters are so cute. I love this drawing style. But who cares?
@ OrphanDidgeridoo:
But it seems that the Math’s teacher doesn’t care a sh*t about this meaning…
My teacher says “who cares” is student code for “help me I’m failing”.
this reminds me of every class clown. lol
LOL Third panel expression is baws.
I respectfully disagree that “F” is the worst grade in the united states. That would imply that there is a system of punishment and reward that is based exclusively on the conditioned response of approval and disapproval… Not to mention that statement is just an overgeneralization that catastophizes the failure to meet the expectations of a demanding academic subject that will in all likely hood prove to be a waste of time in the long run…. says the man who got an F in psychology. Seriously, the system is flawed to a spectacular degree. So remember kids, unless someone decides you’re a genius, or you have the resources or talent to make things move a little faster, you’re on your own.
Thank heaven the fastest runner doesn’t always win the race… that would just be silly.
Actually, I’ve gotten worse grade than F before… ‘ I ‘
I had failed everything so miserably they could not even give me a grade. ‘ I ‘ stood for
incomplete.
Am i the only one who thought that Jelena looks really pretty with colors?
I suddenly wanna see Sandra´s dad colored too. Or is he already colored?
JUST like almost all the collage students I knew so far. Who cares at the beginning of the semester, who cares before the test, …, who cares AFTER the test right ppl? XD
what is this “F” thing? you said it’s the lowest grade in the US, and I go to school in the US, but I thought the lowest grade here was B-, because that’s the lowest thing i ever get. am i missing out on something? lol
And guess who got that A on the next test?
@ Pas:
In Ireland the grading system is much like the American one except we use numbers instead of the +/- system to distinguish between scraping the grade and nearly getting the next one up, and we have an extra grade, NG (commonly called “Natural Genius”) to be given to those too stupid to write their name/exam number (delete as appropriate) on the top of the answer book.
@ Pas:
I wouldn’t call it ignorance. I was wondering the same thing!
More importantly how much of the term was that test Worth? Also Lol if Sandra’s the one who got that ‘A’ in his other hand.
@ DaB.:
The American system uses + & – as well, the same way the German system uses them. Our A-F system probably maps pretty closely onto the German system (just based on 1-6 ~ A-F). There are probably subtle differences but there are differences here as well.
Since A is the “perfect” grade, there is really no such thing as A+ except from teachers who like to use lots of exclamation points. 🙂
For those who care, the A-F system maps to the numbers 4-0 when adding up grades from different classes (A=4, D-1, A-=3.75). So, E and F are functionally equivalent ( 0 ). E just shows that the teacher thinks the student tried (E for Effort).
Crestlinger wrote:
Of course the A is Sandra’s. She’s a Math wiz.
BTW, I’m starting to get use to the color. I think that the colorist is great but Powree’s style, though spare, is so emotive that I never missed color in this strip. Also, she does such a good job that none of the color choices are a surprise to me.
I also noticed that the, possibly “one off,” girl next to Larissa gets a name in the tags but the recurring teacher does not (unless Novis meant Michael).
In the UK it goes down to G, F being a ‘Fail Pass’. Then there is U, something like less than 5% correct, then there is N for not done. Oh yes!
@ Jeff Miller:
If you check the tag itself you’ll see she’s actually a recurring classmate, she was in 3 other comics. In two of them, she was pretty antagonistic though, trying to tease/emotionally bully Sandra in one, and calling Larisa a slut in the other. Her personality here seems pretty different, but it’s probably just because it’s 1 line, and she’s nervous about the test.
@ Pas:
U-for unorthorized incomplete in the UK.
At least she didn’t blow the grade curve. Which (believe me) can be traumatic after class.
I am also Irish, I’m in junior cert year and honestly in first year I didn’t think N.G was real until I discovered the geniuses in my year who get about 2-3 of these in every set of major exams and I have to honestly say I think the reason we have it in Ireland is because of the large number who need it….. 🙂 have you ever noticed that?@ Brian Shanahan:
@ Slimecat:
Uh…wut? LOL.
No, seriously, what? I couldn’t follow that. And the rest of this comment got deleted in my mind as “feeding the troll.” Sorry!
@ Pas:
Fear not, several other completely stereotypical Americans were thinking the same quesiton.
You were just the brave one who actually asked.
Yay for the Home of the Brave(mostly)!
But, yeah… I have no clue either, can someone answer this??
Would her performance on the test count as a small scale epic failure?
@ Pas:
Well I live in France and we don’t use a letter based grade system. We get grades from 0 to 20. Most exams can be passed if you get 10/20 or 12/20. I always trough it was simpler with digits …
Okay, maybe my honey badger joke wasn’t original but 33 thumbs down? Huh?
Here in the US an F is usually anything below 60%. D is the next letter above that (because people who come up with the grading system don’t know their ABCs!) but that’s generally considered “not passing” as well. Most places drop one grade per 10%, but my high school had an evil system where A was above 94%, B was above 85%, C was above 88%, and a D was anything below 80%. I wonder if they still use this system, since lower letter grades here in Florida now means less funding.
@ Xane:
Shouldn’t post before my coffee, C was 78% and D was above 70%. Anything below 70% was an F.
Don’t even get me started on my programming teacher in college where a single mistake was automatic 59% / F.
@ Xane:
That sounds complicated, what with the %s and the letters and are you saying different schools means different grading system? … on the other hand, the simpler the grading system, the harder it is to hide your bad results to your parents … mmh dunno
Well I don’t know about other schools in Canada, but the ones I went to just used percentages. No letters, no numbers, no symbols, just the percent that you got. I suppose they must have had some scale for GPA, but it was never mentioned, and nobody ever found out what their GPA was.
I hit university and they used the American letter scale from A to F, but I think they do that to make it easier to be interchangeable with US schools. Personally, I hate that system almost as much as I hate grade curving.
@ Pas:
I think in England it’s an E. Mind, I’m an ignorant American too. So I could very well be wrong.
@ Pas:
In Finland we go 4 to 10, where 4 is the failing grade. Well, except for vocational schools, which are 1 to 3, and universities, which go 1 to 5…
@ Pas:
In Ireland the grades go from A to NG, 0-10% gets you a no grade (NG)
20 years later.
“Mwa-ha-ha-ha! I am your queen, ruler of the world!”
“If only I hadn’t failed her on that math test *sob*”
I thought she didn’t have to do tests if she kept their affair a secret.
Damn, Jelena is one hot mom in colors.