Level, Mark, Grade, Effort explain please           01/01/2010 14:32 - Parents Associations (Locality: Cork) ----------------------------------- Hello We are new to Irish grade system in a secondary school. I received my son;s End of Year Report and was shocked... 1. Are the grades based only on tests at the last week of the first semester or they are from 1 september - 22 december including homework and current tests during that period? 2. Who is deciding what level the pupil should go and based on what? 3. Mark- is it % and how much is A? B? C? D? F? 4. Grade, how many grades are here and what are they? 5. Effort, how is it possible to have a grade D and effort 4 or a grade A and effort 3?