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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Jaelus, post: 10484916, member: 46237&quot;]It seems like many folks are still thinking this is a different grading method. It&#039;s not. It&#039;s the same wear-based grading scale we have now, it&#039;s only the number reported that changes. Each <i>step</i> up in the grading scale 1-70 is still a <i>step</i> up in the grading scale 1.0-10.0.</p><p><br /></p><p>Not that I&#039;m advocating for this new methodology, but some of the arguments I&#039;m reading here against it just don&#039;t hold water. Fundamentally everyone understands a 10 point scale where there is a &quot;perfect 10&quot;. We have 10 fingers. This concept is more ingrained into our culture than a 70 point scale is.</p><p><br /></p><p>And some of these arguments read like how can 70 be perfect when we all know a 70 is a C on the 100 point grading scale? Something everyone knows from school. Where also are the complaints that the steps in the Sheldon scale skip over tons of grades that aren&#039;t actually used. Where are the 21s, 22s, 23s, and 24s for example? Where are the 56s, 57s, and 59s? What&#039;s the point of skipping over numbers when they aren&#039;t actually used for anything? Well that&#039;s what this scale does.</p><p><br /></p><p>Instead of going AU 50, AU 53, AU 55, AU 58 it goes AU 8.0, AU 8.3, AU 8.5, AU 8.8. It&#039;s the same grade steps, they&#039;ve just eliminated all the unused numbers and added decimals. So before think of AU as being 50 + 0, 3, 5, or 8. Now it&#039;s 8 + 0.0, 0.3, 0.5, or 0.8. MS 70 is now 10. MS 60 is now 9.0 and the MS steps are each 0.1 points instead of 1 point. They haven&#039;t changed grading <i>at all</i> they have just <i>repackaged it.</i>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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