<p>My school doesn’t have A+ so I don’t think it’s fair… grr.</p>
<p>Isn’t the point of grading to differentiate between students? Eliminating pluses and minuses, just eliminates potentially useful information - I don’t see the point. It helps some people at the expense of other people. Also, why is it unfair that a 93.9 not be rounded up? That just means that 94 is the cutoff. If they rounded, 93.5 would be the cutoff, I don’t see why one is more “fair” than the other.</p>
<p>I’m still in high school, but we only get letter grades and I got mostly A-'s. 
Luckily, an A is an A in terms of GPA i.e. A+, A, A-=4.0 at my school, so it’s not that big of a deal.</p>
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<p>It depends on which one helps You. You are the only person who matters and how things affect You determine whether or not they are fair.</p>
<p>I wish we used a more continuous index … like A–, B++, etc.</p>
<p>yeah professors should be able to assign you a real number in [0,4]. the a+,a,a-, etc. scale is just not expressive enough</p>
<p>Better yet – a number from R^2! (But it has the same cardinality as R.)</p>
<p>^ What would the second number measure?</p>
<p>We don’t get letter grades. We get 4.0, 3.5, 3.0, so on. 4.0= 100-93, 3.5= 92-85, 3.0= 84 to…? I don’t know lol. Most of my classes just grade on a 4 point scale for assignments so there is no issue with +/- etc.</p>
<p>The fairest system would be to give %-grades instead of letter (or 4 point scale GPA) grades.</p>
<p>“We don’t get letter grades. We get 4.0, 3.5, 3.0, so on. 4.0= 100-93, 3.5= 92-85, 3.0= 84 to…? I don’t know lol. Most of my classes just grade on a 4 point scale for assignments so there is no issue with +/- etc.”</p>
<p>MSU does that? That’s weird!</p>
<p>Now that you all mentioned it, I hate it too! I would have had a 4.0 for my first semester as a freshman if it wasn’t for my A- in Math! But at least now I don’t feel obligated to have perfect grades like I did in high school when I had a 4.0.</p>
<p>I would have had a significantly higher GPA this semester if my school had pluses and minuses. :[</p>
<p>I got a 3.9 instead of a 4.0 thanks to a bloody A- :D</p>
<p>Yes, I hate it.</p>
<p>But in classes where it’s basically impossible to get an A (and these do exist in college), it’s nice to be able to get an A- or B+ instead of just a B.</p>
<p>We should move away from letter grades and go to a 1-100 system. There’s no reason a difference of 1% in a class should result in a GPA difference of 0.3-0.4, but there’s also no reason a 80 should count the same as an 89.</p>
<p>I agree with bartleby. I hate missing getting an A by a hair in large lecture classes where grades are entirely based on scaling exam scores.</p>
<p>Our school just go by the “A= 4.0, B+=3.5, B=3.0, C+=2.5” system</p>
<p>I have no problem with it, especially when I have a 90-93% in a class. I’m glad to know I could get all 90% in my classes and still have a 4.0 GPA.</p>
<p>I hate minuses, even A minuses. So I’m okay with our system.</p>
<p>I like it. I think there’s a big difference between an 80 and an 89 and two people shouldn’t get the same grades for that. But I’m also not as obsessed about a 4.0 as most of the people here.</p>
<p>My school does +/-…4.0 A, 3.7 A-, 3.3 B+, 3.0 B, 2.7 B-, 2.3 C+, 2.0 C</p>