Talk:Academic grading in Italy

Percentage of successful students
Both columns entitled "% of successful students" seem weird to me. In the University table, the percentages add up to 75%. I assume students obtaining fail grades are not **successful** students. So, should they not add up to 100%?

In the first table, the column "% of successful students" seems to have a different meaning than in the second table. This is inconsistent. eliminated --Serggasp (talk) 09:49, 10 June 2017 (UTC)

As someone who teaches in a university in Italy, I confirm that the column "% of successful students" is completely inaccurate (and it comes without any supporting reference, by the way) and should be nuked from orbit. Fph 20:38, 6 January 2019 (UTC)

Not exactly true
The tables suggests a fixed correlation between "Italian grades" and "ECTS grades" or "Definition", but they are only a hint. The only fixed and official correlation is between "ECTS grades" and "Percentage of successful students".

Every Italian faculty, in order to make the "Italian Grade" -> "ECTS grade" conversion, places all the "Italian grades" obtained by all its students of a certain Academic Year, subdivided among different study cycles (BSc, MSc, BSc+MSc), on a distribution and fetches the appropriate percentiles (as indicated in the "Percentage" column).

--FollowTheMedia (talk) 19:22, 16 July 2014 (UTC)

I'm also confused by correspondence to US grades in the table. The suggestion appears to be that 70% of US students receive a D or worse... which of course isn't the case.
 * — Preceding unsigned comment added by 193.205.210.80 (talk) 11:08, 8 March 2016 (UTC)

The conversion is not accurate at all. A 24/30 grade do not correspond to "barely passing", that would be (18-19-20). Even in the linked resource the conversion table is different and more accurate. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.165.95.77 (talk) 00:39, 2 July 2016 (UTC)