<p>What do you think of classes that are graded more like high school classes (92-100 is an A, etc.)? For the first time ever one of my professors is grading like this, and I'm not sure how much I like it. This whole class feels like high school all over again. I don't really like the idea of the basis for my final grade in this course being different than in all my other courses. </p>
<p>Would this matter to you?</p>
<p>By ten point scale do you mean letter grades with the +/- system?</p>
<p>As far as I’m concerned, each professor has the right to set their own grading scale, and I’ll live with it. My high school didn’t give letter grades <em>or</em> percents for the final grade, so I’m not used to a scale like what you mentioned, but such a grading scale wouldn’t really bother me. I am a math-computer science major, though, so courses are often scaled or curved so the professor can better challenge us (I had a professor who was ecstatic when the midterm results had a mean of 47 and results pretty evenly distributed between a 20 and a 90 because she felt that meant she had made a perfect test). Chances are, there’s some reason the grading scale is 92-100 = A for this course, perhaps to stem grade inflation.</p>
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<p>I mean all of my other classes have always been 90-100 is an A while this one is 92-100. I just think it’s weird that only certain classes would be different.</p>
<p>My school doesn’t allow this. You can make an 85% an A but a 90% is the minimum requirement. I’d be annoyed if I had a class that did this.</p>
<p>I was worried to find out that my Bridge to Abstract Math class required a 94% for an A, but then I found out it was a lot easier than expected and still got an A+. If the scale is raised it’s usually for a reason. More often than not the scale will move down instead of up, though, in my experience. In one of my classes the range for C was 55%-67%, but you still needed a 92 for an A (and I ended up with exactly 92% and got the A).</p>
<p>Why would it be weird for classes to have different grading scales? I would’ve thought it would be weirder for classes with totally different structures and that cover totally different material to have the same grading schemes.</p>
<p>Since my high school classes were 95-100 for an A, I’m really loving this 90-100 scale.</p>
<p>Why should there be a uniform scale? Most of my anthro classes are 93+ for a 4.0 and my residential college depends on the class. I don’t really care, it’s up to the profs to decide the grading scale.</p>
<p>My high school didn’t have uniform grading either so this is normal to me.</p>
<p>Doesn’t seem strange at all. So far most of my classes don’t even post their ‘grading scales’, and simply just apply a curve without telling the class what the cutoff for A an is. For others, the grades are based on how well the professor thinks the class is doing (very vague) with no real scale or set curve. The two classes I took based on a fixed scale had a 92% and 88% cutoff for an A and they were both quite consistent with the difficulty of the tests given. In any case, it seems natural that professors would assign grades based on different criteria.</p>