Our school is in the process of revamping our grading procedures because the current ones are insane (ie, the letter grade cutoffs that equate to percentages are ridiculously high). As it stands right now, a 90% is a B (not a B+, but a plain B!).
Please post the grading criteria your school uses. For example, what letter grades does your school aware and what percentages do they correspond to?
I have never heard of that, Gavin. What is Arizona doing to you guys over there!!??
At Nova, it's straight percentages and no letter grading and 4-point scaled GPAs. A 89.3 is better and higher than a 89.2 grade. Anything below a 70/100 is failing.
If personally you want to convert to a letter grade, then it would be like Indiana's grading system:
A = 93-100
A- = 90-92
B+ = 87-89
B = 83-86
B- = 80-82
C+ = 77-79
C = 73-76
C- = 70-72
It does sound like you guys have it pretty rough. A few years ago, NYU decided to drop letter D grade all together. I guess they were tired of the "D is for Dentist" saying. Anyways, this is what we have now:
A+ (95+),
A (92-94),
A- (90-91),
B+ (87-89),
B (83-86),
B- (80-82),
C+ (77-79),
C (70-76),
F (69 & below)
Our first exam is October 24. The hardest part of pass/fail grading is not getting a percentage. We never find out how many and what we miss on the exams. Just pass or fail. Other than that I think p/f was made for me.
Wow Gavin, your grading curve is really harsh!! What made them change it??
At Temple, is pretty much straight percentages (90 and up=A, 80 and up = B, etc), unless the tests are really hard and everyone scores really low. In that case, the prof just curves the test, from what I've been told.
Well they are changing it because right now it IS too hard. The faculty do feel, however, that a 96+ should be an A and an 88+ should be a B. They expect our quality of work to be at that area. Of course, many of the students felt it to be ridiculous, so the factulty are looking at other options.
