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At yesterday’s Faculty meeting, professors unanimously adopted a new 4.0 grading scale and restricted the proportion of honors awarded each year to 60 percent of the graduating class.
Pedersen said that roughly five times more students will graduate without honors once the change is implemented, citing a report on grading practices and the determination of honors that her office published earlier this month. Last year, roughly 90 percent of seniors graduated with some form of honors.
The switch to a 4.0 grading scale from the Faculty’s current 15-point scale was not controversial. Most Faculty who spoke on the change at yesterday’s meeting agreed that it could only help to clarify the meaning of Harvard’s grades to...
Artful equivocations are even worse; lynx-eyed sly little rascals that we are, we see right through them. (Up to exam 40. Then our lynx eyes droop, and grading habits relax. Try to get on the bottom of the pile.) Again, it is not that A.E.’s...
At the same time, in order to receive honors, more stringent requirements and higher grading standards should be instituted in all departments for thesis level work. But all students who successfully write a quality thesis should receive honors, not just those with top GPAs. These students have satisfied the honors...