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Why do I call our present grading a scandal? The level of grading at Harvard now is beyond all proportion with the excuses made on its behalf. Perhaps our students are better these days (I don't find them so), but not this much better. But if they are in...
Some have wondered why I raised the question of the cause of grade inflation. Why not be content with pointing to the fact and not enter into dispute over the cause? That course is indeed what I would recommend to the Administration. My reason for raising the question of cause...
But their faith is predicated on a widespread misunderstanding of the impact of the unit test program-a somewhat complicated part of the course's unique grading procedure.
Many students think a 100 point scale denotes the simple grading mechanism they remember from high school where an 88% would yield a B+.
Because there is no "13" in Harvard's 15 point grading system, students who cannot move from a B+ to an A- end up with a 12 rather than a 14.