Component grading?

C14N

I've been looking through my grades for the semester and a lot of my lecturers have decided to grade our assignments throughout the year with just a grade rather than a numerical score. I want to work out how much these are all worth so I did some searching and found that UCD used a separate method of grading for the entire module vs each individual part. To quote this UCD PDF:

Where a component is marked rather than graded then the overall component mark is retained in
calculating the final grade.

Where a component is graded rather than marked, the calculation point (as shown on the component
grade scale on page 5) is used in calculating the final grade.

It then gives a table of what each "calculation point" is.

The thing I'm wondering about is that the highest calculation point (which corresponds to A+) is 78.33%. Does this mean that the maximum a student can get on these assignments is 78.33% and that even if they actually got 100%, they still lose marks from the total grade at the end?

Like for example, if an assignment is worth 30% of the total module and a student gets 100% in this assignment, do they still only have 24% going into the exam?

If so this seems like a terrible system since students can lose marks simply by the way that their lecturer decides to show their grades.

Muir

Yep, it happened to me last year, got 100% on a quiz, was given the 78.33% which means overall for the module I ended up with an A instead of an A+. It sucks. Doesn't happen in all subjects so check with the lecturer themselves.