A teacher at this troper's high school was known for giving negative scores on work that he felt deserved less than a zero.

A kid in my eighth-grade social studies class got a -2 on a quiz. Got every question wrong and forgot to put his name on it, which was automatically two points off.

I'm not sure if this is the same in all of the USA, but at my high school they would grade some people as "X" if they scored less than %50. (F was at 65)

Nope, your school did things wrong. The correct way is A = 100 - 90, B = 89 - 80, C = 79 - 70, D = 69 - 60, F = The rest.

It's not "wrong" it provides extra information. Definitely not standard though.

This troper's fifth grade teacher threatened to give a student an "F Pluh" which is apparently half way between an F and an F+ .

This troper had a classmate in sixth grade who got an "F+ " on a creative writing assignment; our teacher said the sheer craziness of his ideas just managed to wedge the atrocious plot, grammar, spelling and writing a few inches out of the abyss. Sadly I don't remember the specifics.

My school offers Es, for those who don't even get credit.

Where this Troper lives, we don't have Fs but Es. It's not that bad, considering they are exactly the same. It was pretty hilarious when this troper's father had testified in another part of the country and had this conversation; #QUOTE#''Father:''I had never had a D or an E. #QUOTE#''Man:''Who the hell gets Es? #QUOTE#''Father:''| _ |

This troper remembers an occasion where a teacher openly said that one of my classmate deserved a G.

This Troper and her friends loled and loled when we found out that in the new grading systems, they had split the "F" category to "F+ " "F" and "F-". It wasn't so funny when she got many an F- in Geometry/Algebra 2 the next year. (Not for the semester, thank God)

This Troper once had a teacher who had As, Bs, Cs, and Ds with the standard values, but then followed with Es, Fs, Gs, and so forth. One student actually got an H- on a quiz.

This tropers brother once handed in, as a piece of classical civilisation coursework, at a very upperclass independent school: a blank, torn piece of paper, with a few coffee rings on it, and a tomato and grease stain from a hamburger. His grade? U Minus Minus.

This troper's father's friend was caught egging a hated teacher's car. If he got a D- on his final exam, he would've passed that class. What did the teacher give him? You guessed it. F+.

This troper's Spanish teacher had an anti-plagarism policy that was as follows: If you cheated on an assignment, you didn't just get 0 points, you got ''the negative of the assignment's maximum score.'' Theoretically, you could have a grade as low as -100%, though after 1-2 cheated assignments you'd probably be in administrative trouble.

Once, in grade school, our teacher gave us a test with 112 questions. She had us grade each other's papers, and subtract 2 points from 100% for each question missed. You guessed it - one poor kid missed 106 questions and ended up with a -6% on the test.

Shouldn't that be ONE point per question missed?

At this troper's school, there once was a teacher who'd give grade 1 for a test without mistakes, grade 2 for up to three mistakes, grade 3 for up to six... usually, the German school system has 6 as the lowest grade, but he went so far to give some students a 9!

This troper's university had a policy that for every day late you handed in an assignment without an authorized extention, you would be deducted ten points from your grade -- e.g. if you hand an an assignment that would otherwise have got 70/100 two days late, it'd be reduced to 50/100. However, one of my housemates misinterpreted the rule and thought it was 10% of your overall mark deducted for every day it was late, and so handed an assignment in ''three weeks'' late, thinking that if he gave in a very good piece of work, it'd still pass even with the deduction. Result? The assignment got 65/100... which, with the deductions, gave a final mark of -145/100. Needless to say, he never finished his degree.

Shouldn't the professor have simply not accepted it after it was 10 days late?

In graduate school, this troper had a professor who was known for being a {{Jerkass}}, as well as having strong opinions on certain subjects. This troper took the opposite point of view, and decided to write an essay arguing his case. The literal grade he received: A minus minus minus minus (yes, with four minuses marked on the essay sheet). In other words: I really hate your position, but I don't have the justification to grade you lower.

During a rather pessimistic conversation with a friend about GCSE results, my friend commented that she thought she was probably going to get a U (in other words, a failure) in science. To which I replied, "I'll probably get a Now I Know My ABC." (She and I actually got a B and an A respectively)

This troper dares you to get 105% on an Emergency IQ test. The extra 5% is for creativity.

This troper's 5th grade teacher threatened her with an F Pluh. Not quite as bad as an F but not as good as an F+. This grade was assigned to someone else.

My school has NP, if you get NP, It basically means you didn't do anything, AT ALL.

This troper suggested that his school replace the F grades with T for "Try again."

This Troper had this inverted on a test. It offered generous extra credit to start (20 points on a 100 point test.) He got 115% on it. Then, due to the difficulty of the test, the professor ''curved it so an 85 would be 100%'' which meant that his 115 was a 135.3%. He literally wrote "A+++" on his test.

This troper was once playing a round of golf that was going, to put it nicely, quite poorly. On the fourth hole, Following a particularly bad tee shot that went off to the middle of nowhere, an approach shot that overshot the green by a huge margin, a chip from there straight into a sand trap that took four tries to get out of the bunker and right into a sand trap on the other side of the green and a club tossed a fair distance into the air (all this on a par 3, mind you) I ultimately just gave up and picked up the ball. While I started counting srokes my brother stopped me, "Too late, I already put one of those sideways eight thingies on the scorecard."

Hardly common, but in England, if you score less than 40%, you'll get a U. ''Owch.''

This troper has heard a story of someone who went to my school who got -1/10 on a chemistry quiz because he complained about it when other people were taking the quiz.

I got D- - in one subject on my school report. I would have asked if this is even possible but I didn´t want to push my luck because I was already expecting a F.