Nov 4, 2009 17:24
15 yrs ago
French term
Petite satisfaction / Bonne satisfaction
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Transcripts
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.)
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.)
Proposed translations
(English)
| 2 +2 | fair / good |
ormiston
|
| 4 | Passable/Good |
Verginia Ophof
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| 4 | Pass/ pass with merit |
Robin Salmon (X)
|
| 3 | satisfactory / good |
Anne-Marie Grant (X)
|
Proposed translations
+2
45 mins
Selected
fair / good
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
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
4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer.
Comment: "Selected automatically based on peer agreement."
49 mins
Verginia Ophof
Belize
Belize
Native in English
Belize
Near Native Proficiency in Source langua
Native in: English
Works in: Portuguese to English, Dutch to English, French to English
Related KudoZ points
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18
Passable/Good
I believe Petite Satisfaction is lower that Satisfaction
3 hrs
satisfactory / good
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.
5 mins
Pass/ pass with merit
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.
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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.
Peer comment(s):
| neutral |
Chris Hall
: Asker indicated that "Satisfaction" = "Pass". I agree. You seem to think that "Petite Satisfaction" = "Pass" which I don't think it is.
4 mins
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Discussion
"Pass" for "Satisfaction,"
"Good" for "Bonne Satisfaction." (I was tempted to call it "High Pass" but it occurs to me that the grading system might include something like an "Excellente Satisfaction" that the student in question didn't happen to achieve.)
Petite satisfaction : Not good but not under the minimal expectation either