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...grades of C-minus, D-plus and D-minus would clarify the meaning of those that remain. But as the committee itself points out, “the number of all D and C range grades awarded combined has been lower than the number of B-minus grades awarded each year since 1995-1996.” Grades such as D-minus and D-plus may not mean much under the current system, but they are a miniscule part of the problem. The real concern lies in the vacuous meaning of grades such as B-plus, A-minus...
This change aims to remove the “skip” between an A-minus and a B-plus, which represent a 14 and a 12, respectively, on the current grading scale...
Since there would be less of a numerical difference between an A-minus and a B-plus, this change would make professors more willing to give students B-range grades, the report argues...
Along the same lines, some have proposed to add an intermediate grade between an A-minus and a B-plus, corresponding to a 13 on Harvard’s grading scale. This, supposedly, would fight the current compression of the grade spectrum and give professors another option to reward excellent work. But this also addresses the symptom, and not the cause, of grade inflation. Harvard has enough grades—12 in all, from A to E with all the pluses and minuses in between—that it would have no trouble distinguishing between students if the system were...
...have at their disposal, those grades are useless to students if no one agrees on their meaning. Individual TFs, professors and departments are forced to guess at the proper meaning of inflated grades. One TF’s A-minus may be another TF’s A or B-plus. In lieu of clear standards across the Faculty and even across TFs in the same course, interpreting a grade can be as challenging as earning it in the first place...