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A report recommending the College radically change its numerical grading scale and overhaul its honors system to combat grade inflation was debated in a closed meeting of the Committee on Undergraduate Education (CUE) yesterday.
After months of debate and discussion among the Faculty, the Educational Policy Committee (EPC) drafted the report based on the reviews of grading practices that each department had submitted in February.
In the verbal section of the exam, doing away with the analogies in favor of a writing sample destroys the possibility for objective grading. Analogies allow for objective comparison of students and require critical analysis of words’ linkage to one another. Furthermore, the SAT II writing test already...
The Faculty’s Educational Policy Committee (EPC) is in the process of reviewing reports that each department submitted this semester reviewing its internal grading procedures.
“Before we decide to raise the GPA cut-off it makes sense to define the grading standards since [the new grades] might translate into different standards of honors,” she said.