u/Jacobrox777

In the UK, 'mark' is the main word for what one achieves on a test, question, or assessment. For example, there may be 16 available 'marks', of which I get 13 'marks'. If I had 15 minutes to complete the test, it is approximately "a mark a minute". According to Wiktionary, this is chiefly used in Commonwealth English, which blew my mind. Is that actually the case?

Note: the etymology is logically that each possible point was denoted with a mark on the paper (e.g. a tick), so you get the score equivalent to how many marks there are on the paper.