Word: minuses
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Bronson also poked fun at the controversy concerning honors inflation throughout this academic year—saying that just last semester he received an A-minus in a class he wasn’t even taking...
Among its recommendations were a switch from a 15- to an eight-point grading scale to eliminate the numerical gap between a B-plus and an A-minus, and thus reduce pressure on professors to award A-range grades...
Harvard currently has a 15.0 grading scale with a gap between a B-plus and an A-minus that several professors have argued causes professors to award more A-range grades...
...conjured up details of Commencements past, explaining that at the first graduation exercises eight of the nine students graduated with some type of honors. In jest, Summers said research had found that the ninth student was forced to wear a scarlet B-minus, a reference to current controversy over honors inflation...
Until television director Andrew “Andy” D. Cadiff ’77 took his first science classes at Harvard, he planned to pursue a career in medicine. But a C-minus in Natural Science 3 forced him to reconsider...