The problem is we are told 86 points is a bad score. If 86 point is a bad score then either it is possible to score much higher, or the lower the score the better.by Drawde wrote: In all the manga and anime I've seen involving schools 100 is the best score. Every time. So it's safe to assume that it's the same here.
by Crescent Pulsar R wrote: Uh... Grade school tests are usually graded on a scale of 0-100. That should be a no-brainer.
by Crescent Pulsar R wrote: Also, Ranma is more concerned about people thinking that he's an idiot, because of what the principle had said, and how he had behaved. He was confident enough about his test score to want to get it back and show it himself, to prove that he wasn't an idiot (aside from wanting to stop the principal on general principle, of course).
by Crescent Pulsar R wrote: One of the things that I noticed was that Akane didn't show any sign that she had an expectation about the kind of score that Ranma would get. You'd think that she would have some idea, given the fact that they sit next to each other in class and live in the same house. This might suggest that his grades seldom follow a predictable pattern.
by Crescent Pulsar R wrote: Ranma's reaction to his test score either means that he did better than the principal had led him to believe, he did better than he had expected for that particular test, or he had done better than his average scores. Genma's remark seems to only confuse matters, for several reasons: Ranma was okay with his score; it wasn't so bad that Akane bothered to say anything about it; and there seems to be a difference between Viz's translation and the original Japanese text.
by Crescent Pulsar R wrote: Of course, if you take the principal's word for it (that he's the worst student in the school), and the student's word for it (wondering when he had ever cared about his grades), and Ranma's own admission that test scores were meaningless to him, one could easily construe that to mean that he's a poor student.
Zwzn wrote:The manga specifically says points, and I know from experience that you can score more then 100 points on a test. You are thinking of percentages.
Akane's reaction was that of someone who was depressed about her grade leading us to believe 86 points was not a high score.
PCHeintz72 wrote:As far as I am aware, we only have one piece of indirect evidence comparing Ranma to someone else as far as school intellegence.
The incident with Ranma and Ryoga when Ryoga was studying to get into high school.
The fact Ranma does nto seem to struggle near as much as Ryoga that we've seen, yet still maintain the same grade level as Akane, is the thing..
But Comparing Ranma to Ryoga and viewing either as a baseline would be a sever mistake.
Wyrd wrote: The biggest troublemakers in classrooms are sometimes the brightest, who are just bored out of their minds.
Zwzn wrote:The manga specifically says points, and I know from experience that you can score more then 100 points on a test. You are thinking of percentages.
Akane's reaction was that of someone who was depressed about her grade leading us to believe 86 points was not a high score.
It depends on how the test was written. If the test had 100 questions, and each question is worth 1 point then a score of 86 POINTS is a very good, but if the test had for example the possibility of scoring 200 points then 86 would be a bad score. As I have already said repeatedly, we don't know enough about the test to say Akane scored well, and what is normal for schools, or more specifically Japanese schools does not matter because the school Ranma and Akane go to is hardly the norm in a number of ways from what I recall.Lioconvoy wrote: Go ahead and ignore what I said why don't you. With english translations, they tend to localize things. So yeah, 100 is probably the highest score.
Akane certainly was not happy about her grade.Lioconvoy wrote: Also Akane may look depressed to you, but to me she seems indifferent. That scene may lead you to believe one thing, but like a lot of things in Takahashi's works, it isn't that cut and dry. We really don't get enough information there to assume Akane's grade is better or worse that Ranma's. You have your take, but the facts, the facts don't really show anything in this instance.
Lioconvoy wrote: Please give me one other instance that shows Ranma's grades are good, or Akane's are bad.
Zwzn wrote:The problem is we are told 86 points is a bad score. If 86 point is a bad score then either it is possible to score much higher, or the lower the score the better.
You are the one ignoring what I write. I've tried translating what I was told was the original japanese, and the translation came out to be 86 points. Without knowing what a point is worth we can't know what 86 points means.
Crescent Pulsar R wrote:Lio, I'd advise not reasoning with Zwzn any further on the matter. If Akane thinks that her grade was "so-so" (as in: it's okay; there's nothing to be worried about) yet he reasons it's a "bad grade" and she was "depressed," trying to correct him would just be a bridge leading to nowhere. You're not going to get across to him.
Zwzn wrote:Akane is failing gym.
Akane is certainly not doing well in home economics since that includes just about everything she can't do.
Akane is likely not aloud near the chem lab.
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