My first first!

I got my Early American Literature paper back today and the mark said  70. I'm not very familiar with the grading system here but anything over 70% is a first, which is the highest grade! Yayyyy!

I copied this from some forum for those of you who are interested in how it works:

A first equates to the student having an average of over 70%
An upper second (2:1) is between 60% and 69%
A lower second (2:2) is between 50% and 59%
A third is between 40% and 49%

So I would've thought comparing it to the Bologna system (which we have in Sweden) would mean:

First=A
2.1=B
2.2=C
Third=D
Pass=E

But after talking to some english students during the break today I realized it doesn't really work like that. They said that basically anything under a 2.1 was not considered good. I think in Sweden being a C student is still pretty good so maybe I can't compare the grades as I have done.
Will have to investigate some more....

But right now I've still got 150 pages of A Picture of Dorian Gray left to read until tomorrow...