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Mehr, wenn du unter "Suche in allen Foren" als Stichwort "ungenügend" bzw. "Schulnoten" eingibst.

were/are the respective terms used at our bilingual school (JFKS)

Ich wuerde sagen:
1 = very good (sehr gut)
2 = good (gut)
3 = satisfactory (befriedigend)
4 = sufficient (ausreichend)
5 = poor/fail (mangelhaft)
6 = very poor/fail (ungenügend)

Eine direkte Uebersetzund der Woerter ist im Sinne des Bildungswesens nicht moeglich.

'sufficient' sounds very funny, imo. I would make that 'adequate', or preferably 'pass', 'bare pass' and 'fail' for the bottom three. We used those in my schools when I was still teaching.

Hi, John! - And what figure/rating would you put on 'bypass' ? . . .

(Beware! - This is a test and your sense-of-humo(u)r will be rated upon the answer given by you!) . . . ;-)))

I have never heard of a 4-befriedigned being a failure. Most of the time a single 5-mangelhaft is not a failure.

I mean 4-Ausreichend of course

1 = excellent (sehr gut)
2 = very good (gut)
3 = good (befriedigend)
4 = satisfactory(ausreichend)
5 = unsatisfactory (mangelhaft)
6 = very poor/fail (ungenügend)

Ich wuerde 4-Ausreichend vielleicht auch als "tolerable (performance)" uebersetzen

mags hat Recht!

selbst im alten deutschen System ist 4 = satisfactory

OT: ich bin gerade dabei mags zu meinem Englischguru zu ernennen

"satisfactory" is the literal translation for "befriedigend" (3). Hence, would'nt it be bnetter to use something else for "ausreichend" (4), maybe the literal "sufficient"?

Simon A

ob wörtliche Übersetzung oder nicht:

im deutschen System ist befriedigend weitaus besser als satisfactory;

aber ich glaube, ich habe keine Lust, mich hier weiter zu melden; mags hat die wirkliche Notenentsprechung hier aufgelistet - keiner reagiert - sehr wahrscheinlich aus Unkenntnis.
Soll ich mich da weiter aufregen? Naturlich nicht!!

'Tolerable' doesn't sound remotely like English in this context, sorry.

'Very poor' is not used for grades either.

You really have to use terms that are actually common in the field, not those that someone has just made up because they sound a little similar to the German ones.

"wahrscheinlich aus Unkenntnis" - or possibly because some of us have a life.

Unkenntnis? I was a teacher for many years. Mags' are OK apart from 'Unsatisfactory' and 'Very poor', which no English school would use.

The common terms are:

Excellent
Very good
Good
Fair
Pass
Bare pass
Fail

There are 7 here, so you need to reconcile the 2 systems as best you can.