Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: $Revision: 1.6.2.16 $; site ea.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!cbosgd!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcs!ea!mwm From: mwm@ea.UUCP Newsgroups: net.college Subject: Re: Grade Scales? Message-ID: <2100002@ea.UUCP> Date: Thu, 27-Sep-84 12:56:00 EDT Article-I.D.: ea.2100002 Posted: Thu Sep 27 12:56:00 1984 Date-Received: Mon, 1-Oct-84 03:40:11 EDT References: <2100001@ea.UUCP> Lines: 30 Nf-ID: #R:ea:2100001:ea:2100002:000:1072 Nf-From: ea!mwm Sep 27 11:56:00 1984 /***** ea:net.college / uokvax!jab / 8:58 pm Sep 26, 1984 */ /***** uokvax:net.college / ea!mwm / 3:32 pm Sep 24, 1984 */ A 80-100 B 60-80 C 40-60 D 20-40 F 0-20 /* ---------- */ This is a really kinda strange grading scale, also. Are you trying to tell me that a student who misses 4 questions out of 5 still passes the class? That doesn't sound like a reasonable system, either. Jeff Bowles Lisle, IL /* ---------- */ Depends on how hard the test is. If it is sufficiently difficult, getting 2 or three right could indicate that you knew the material, but weren't proficient at using it (a C grade), and one right would mean that you were had some grasp of the material - and possibly deserved to pass. The grade scale must of course reflect the difficulty of the test. Maybe I should have said that the current crop of tests don't differentiate among the better students, but only among the worst. Of course, I can't write tests that fit some magic curve, so I don't worry about what score gets what grade until I've got all the grades in hand.