As luck would have it, this dismal effort helped Giaever to secure a job at a renowned GE industrial laboratory near Albany, the New York state capital. Eyeing his grades, the personnel director exclaimed: “I see you have 4.0 in both physics and mathematics, you must have been a very good student!” Giaever wisely neglected to mention that the grading system in Norway worked in the opposite direction to the US, meaning that 4.0 was the lowest pass mark rather than the top grade it signalled in American schools.
The personnel director was an idiot!
Once upon a time didn’t Oxford award Fourth class honours to people who hadn’t earned a Third?
I’d ask google but its AI has already lied to me in the last few days.
Indeed. The argument – so I’ve heard – was along the lines of “It was great having him here at the university but not a spot nor lick of work was done”.
I suppose one result of google’s lies will be that people will treat Wokeypedia as a fount of accuracy. Irony, eh?
I can see something like this happening with the new GCSE grading methods. “You’ve got a 9? God, that’s crap, my son got an A five years ago when they were handing them out like sweeties, bugger off!”