How are grades given in your elementary schools? For example, if there are corrections or if a quest…

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How are grades given in your elementary schools? For example, if there are corrections or if a question has 2 correct answers but only one is chosen. What grade would they get: a 4 or a 5? Here's the situation: my daughter is in 4th grade and she's an excellent student. My son is in 2nd grade, and he mostly gets 4s on all his tests. So I'm comparing their work. For my son, even with one correction on a test, they give him a 4. For my daughter, for the exact same thing, they give her a 5. So, if she were in his class, she wouldn't be an "excellent student" lol. It feels a bit unfair because of the corrections, especially since all the answers are correct in the end. But on the other hand, she won't have a "mental breakdown" in 5th grade. My daughter, on the other hand, seems to be in for an unpleasant surprise in 5th grade.
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Olesya
We lose a point for every 2 corrections.
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Elena
There are elementary school teachers who are lenient, turn a blind eye, and inflate grades. That's why, yes, some kids will start to slip in 5th grade.
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elena tolstygina
So strict, 1 correction is already 4
Read 2 wrong words in literature, 4
Even gets a 2
2nd grade
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shilkina zhanna
1 mistake is 1 point;
1 correction is 0.5 points
They told us about this grading system back in first grade
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Ekaterina Shipova
A single smudge doesn't lower the grade.
2 gifts = minus one point.
In the end, it's possible to have work with no mistakes, but smudges can still result in a grade of 4.
My daughter is in 3rd grade.
But, thankfully, the teacher sometimes turns a blind eye to some of these things, pretending not to see them and not taking certain gifts into account.
Otherwise, the kids would be failing…
My daughter definitely would be.
Not only are there mistakes + corrections… but she still gets a 3.
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Yuliya
She deducts for everything, and in 4th grade she became even more demanding, only giving 5s for flawless work.
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Agapova Inna
Dear parents, if you don't see any red corrections in the notebook but it has a "4", it means I lowered the grade due to messiness/terrible handwriting, or in Russian class, due to multiple corrections made by the child themselves!
Remember, this doesn't affect the math grade, but it does affect the Russian grade (two child corrections = 1 mistake, and that already results in a "4")❗

So.
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Olga Tihonova
Agapova Inna We already got a 4 for a grammar mistake in our world around us test

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Olga Tihonova
Yuliya So it was my daughter's teacher who relaxed us! )
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Olga Tihonova
Ekaterina Shipova My daughter often has smudges, but everything is correct and they never lowered her grade for it. My son's teacher is very strict, though. For a math test, only 2 students in the class got an A, and one of them was ours. For some tests, there isn't a single A in the whole class. I try not to stress about it, I know my child is smart, but it's starting to get annoying 😅

And in 1st grade, she didn't give them any homework and didn't check anything, but now she's really cracking down. If she's going to be this strict, she should have had the whole year to teach everyone not to make smudges and corrections. Instead, she just wrote 'SM' (smudge/mistake) in their notebooks all year without any comments.
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Olga Tihonova
shilkina zhanna No one told us anything, I'm just comparing based on my two kids.
My son even lost a point on his "World Around Us" test for a grammatical error.
Although I think it's unfair, the child might not be that great with Russian yet, but they answered everything correctly regarding the subject.
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Olga Tihonova
elena tolstygina So, it was my daughter's teacher who relaxed us ))
Maybe it's good that they get used to strictness right away
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Olga Tihonova
Elena Oh no, it looks like my daughter is in for a nasty surprise because she's often careless with her schoolwork.

I somehow thought this was normal for all kids in elementary school. But from the comments, it seems like everyone else's kids are strict, like my son's.
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Ekaterina Shipova
Ekaterina Shipova In my first grade, we also didn't have homework. Notebooks were checked, and if there was a problem, a note was written, of course.
But if everything was fine... I don't remember what happened 😂
In the second grade, she still didn't try too hard to fight for her handwriting, but in the third grade... that's it. What you see is what you get, the main thing is to write correctly and neatly.
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Yuliya
Yuliya We had a top student transfer in last year from a parallel class, but in our class, she immediately started getting Cs. Now she's mostly getting Bs and As, but she's unlikely to become a straight-A student. I know that 50% of our C students could have been solid B students.
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Olga Tihonova
Yuliya Let's see what awaits us in 5th grade 🙈
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ZVYaGINA LENA
1 mistake -4
2 mistakes -3
And it's understandable going forward

If the work is messy, the handwriting is sloppy, there are smudges, or everything is jumbled, you lose 1 point for that, no more than that.
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