When I did a South African flight test I was horrified by the grading system...1 to 10 for every single element of the flight...from A check to crosswind landing to shutdown and securing of the plane...everything!
I noticed afterwards that the instructor had in fact just marked 6/10 for almost everything...so perhaps he wasn't paying much attention to the flight...or I'm a pretty average pilot. A completely different way to doing things to the 'tick in the box' for my JAA PPL skills test...it would be interesting to look back on a career of flying with each element of each flight test you ever did marked out of 10.
The flying school also had an internal grading of 1 to 5 for each flight done with an instructor...covering elements like 'procedures' and 'CRM & airmanship'...again very different from the approach I was used to in the UK.