Divisions like UC Berkeley’s College of Chemistry and UC Davis’s Department of Mathematics are deliberating whether to change how they grade students. In some cases, that means awarding students a ...

when a standard letter grade (not CR or CRD), the grade earned is included in GPA calculation along with the grade earned the first time the course was taken ^^ repeated course for which credit is ...

Curves on classes can make all the difference when it comes to passing or failing a class. The Exponent talked to professors ...

Daniel Pink’s online column about the flaws of traditional grading argues that our institutions of higher education must ...

Broken down by letter grade, a student with all A's earns a 4.0, all B's gets a 3.0 and all C's hits the 2.0 mark. GPA is calculated over a student's college career by averaging all of their class ...

Students' primary focus in college should be on the process of ... on a minimum of 12 units of credit for courses in which letter grades were assigned," Wood says. Experts say a 4.0 GPA, which ...

In addition to letter grade options traditionally assigned to indicate the level ... All courses completed in the Pass mode are approved to meet any College of Science undergraduate degree requirement ...

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Northeastern University, the University of Massachusetts Amherst and Wellesley College improved by a letter grade. Other Massachusetts institutions ...