What does "full credit" mean?

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Hi,I am not sure how many ways to say a person gets a 100 points. I am told that I can use 'full marks' and ' a perfect score' are two of them. Can we also use "full credit" or " maximum credit"? Thanks.Gloria

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[nq:1]I am not sure how many ways to say a person gets a 100 points. I am told that I can use 'full marks' and ' a perfect score' are two of them. Can we also use "full credit" or " maximum credit"? Thanks.[/nq]
No: in the collegiate environment, "credit" means an allowance for work not done or work done elsewhere. E.g. a student transferring after two years from ABC university to XYZ university may be given by XYZ full credit for the first two years of its programme (or possibly partial credit, dependent on the transfer students' taking courses XYZ judges he needs but
has not yet taken.)
Secondly the main meaning of credit is financial.
I have X thousand dollars of credit at my bank:
i.e. if the bank account balance is reduced to
zero, the bank will continue to honour cheques
up to $X,000. (Normally if you have $3 in the
bank and write a cheque for $4 the bank will
not pay it unless you prearrange "credit.")

Don Phillipson
Carlsbad Springs
(Ottawa, Canada)

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[nq:2]I am not sure how many ways to say a ... we also use "full credit" or " maximum credit"? Thanks.[/nq]
[nq:1]No: in the collegiate environment, "credit" means an allowance for work not done or work done elsewhere. E.g. a student ... (or possibly partial credit, dependent on the transfer students' taking courses XYZ judges he needs but has not yet taken.)[/nq]
Conversely, many secondary and trade schools use "credit" to measure work done, i.e. courses completed. When I was in high school (1974-8) passing a one-semester course earned three credits, regardless of the actual mark (> 40%) granted, and a full-year (or double one-semester) five. This was an either-or situation for which expressions like "full credit" and "maximum credit" wouldn't apply: no partial credits were awarded. Having earned one hundred credits (including those earned for mandatory "core" classes in certain subjects at the Grade XII level) was necessary to qualify for a diploma.

Odysseus

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[nq:2]No: in the collegiate environment, "credit" means an allowance for ... courses XYZ judges he needs but has not yet taken.)[/nq]
[nq:1]Conversely, many secondary and trade schools use "credit" to measure work done, i.e. courses completed. When I was in high ... earned for mandatory "core" classes in certain subjects at the Grade XII level) was necessary to qualify for a diploma.[/nq]
I'm not sure about a collegiate environment, but on lower levels, "credit" could indeed refer to a score. My daughter occasionally receives marks above 100%, because "extra credit" is granted. Erroneous answers on tests may receive "partial credit" if the logic is correct, but the conclusion is faulty for some mechanical reason (transposed numbers in math, for example). Missing a quiz means the student gets "no credit" for that quiz.
It's not hard to imagine a teacher using "full credit" to refer to 100% of a quiz or test though I don't remember ever hearing that particular phrase used while I was in school.

rzed

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As a one-time math tutor, I've never heard "full credit" used in relation to an entire test, but often in relation to a particular question that had multiple parts.
For example:
"Question 7. What are the diameter and area of a circle with a radius of 3? You must answer both parts correctly in order to get full credit. Partial credit will not be given."
I'm not sure if this needs saying, but "a perfect score" doesn't necessarily mean 100 points. It just means the highest score possible on the test. If a test has 6 questions, each worth one point, then a perfect score is 6.
-PM
http://www.puzzlemonster.com

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