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“Between section, office hours, grading, and attending lecture it takes up as much time as a fifth class,” says Ariel B.E. Shwayder ’03, a CA for Math 101.
So Harvard uses grades instead. Inherent in letter grading is the comparison of students to one another:
The trouble with grade inflation is that it makes it impossible to standardize evaluations within and across departments. Some teachers see a B as a default grade for those who don’t receive A’s. A different teacher may distribute B’s according to...
At Duke this system was not instituted, due to students who feared a shake-up in grades, and professors who didn’t want to relinquish their power over the grading process. Of course this system isn’t perfect, but it is worth considering. Once we?...
However, there are two other possibilities. It is possible that Harvard’s 15-point grading scale is too confusing for even Harvard to decipher. Or maybe Harvard just isn’t as smart as we thought it was. Therefore, The Crimson rescinds Harvard’s Detur...