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Petite satisfaction / Bonne satisfaction

English translation: fair / good

17:24 Nov 4, 2009

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French term or phrase: Petite satisfaction / Bonne satisfaction

This is from a Belgian medical school transcript from the 1970s.

The results of the student's exams are listed as:
Satisfaction (which according to previous Proz questions is "Pass")
Bonne Satisfaction
Petite Satisfaction

Has anyone run across these terms before? I wonder if
"Petite Satisfaction" is higher or lower than plain "Satisfaction"?

Thanks

(Sorry to ask two terms in one question but I don't think it makes sense to split them up.)

RachelV KudoZ activity Questions: 127 (2 open) (1 without valid answers) (6 closed without grading) Answers: 170 United States
Local time: 16:46

English translation:fair / good

Explanation:
agree with comments above, so this is tentative. Might be better to avoid any pass/fail type ratings.
Here are standard Anglo-Saxon academic ratings:

[PDF] Excellent / Good / Fair / Poor / None - [ Traduire cette page ]Format de fichier: PDF/Adobe Acrobat - Afficher
Excellent / Good / Fair / Poor / None. Academic and Professional Qualifications: Please list the academic and professional qualifications which you have ...
www.ocms.ac.uk/pdf/ma_application.pdf - Pages similaires

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ormiston
France
Local time: 22:46

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4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer

Summary of answers provided

Pass/ pass with merit

Robin Salmon

Passable/Good

Verginia Ophof

2 +2

fair / good

ormiston

satisfactory / good

Anne-Marie Grant

Discussion entries: 5

Answers

45 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +2

fair / good

ormiston
France
Local time: 22:46
Works in field
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in category: 4

Grading comment

Selected automatically based on peer agreement.

49 mins confidence:

Passable/Good

Explanation:
I believe Petite Satisfaction is lower that Satisfaction

Verginia Ophof
Belize
Local time: 15:46
Native speaker of:

English

3 hrs confidence:

satisfactory / good

Explanation:
i.e. they're both passes but 'petite satisfaction' indicates that the candidate only just managed to pass and, in my experience, 'satisfactory' can be used to express this notion in English.

Anne-Marie Grant
United Kingdom
Local time: 21:46
Works in field
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in category: 12

5 mins confidence:

Pass/ pass with merit

Explanation:
I think this would be it!

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Note added at 9 hrs (2009-11-05 02:45:17 GMT)
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I initially thought of "fair" for "petite satisfaction" but, in 23 years in teaching in five different countries, I saw it used only as a term report card grade, never as an exam grade.

Robin Salmon
Australia
Local time: 05:46
Specializes in field
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in category: 30