“A’s” are gone from British Columbia report cards, but B.C. parents hoping to gauge their child’s performance find the newfangled “descriptive” grading system confusing, according to a new report.

Last year, the B.C. government scrapped the traditional A, B, C grading system for kindergarten to Grade 9 students in favour of a descriptive grading system that saw student progress judged along a scale from “emerging” to “extending.”