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Instead of receiving "Excellent," "Satisfactory," "Low Pass" or "Unsatisfactory," B-School students will be graded on a numerical basis, from I to IV, with one as the highest mark...
...campaign for change resulted from widespread student discontent with the school's grading curve, according to second-year student David Ull, chairman of the B-School education committee which first proposed revising the system...
...fall of 1985, an 18-member student committee first launched its campaign to de-emphasize grade competition. When the 190-member B-School faculty approved the change last spring, they added a clause requiring professors to write in-depth evaluations of a student's performance to accompany each category III or IV grade...
These reports will be destroyed unless the student becomes one of the four percent of first-year students reviewed each year by the B-School's academic performance committee, according to Thomas Bonoma, director of the MBA program...
Under the old system, professors had to assign Low Passes or Unsatisfactories to 10 to 15 percent and Excellents to 15 to 20 percent of the students in each of 18 class sections into which B-School students are randomly placed...