I have a professor in one of my English classes that grades oddly (in my opinion). It’s only odd to me because I’m not used to it.
Whenever she grades an essay, she doesn’t assign a percentage; she assigns a letter grade. She will leave comments on a paper and then a letter grade at the end like A, A-, etc., but she doesn’t leave a percentage, as I said.
I had a professor last year that graded the same way. How is the overall course grade calculated, then, if there are no percentages? I guess I could just ask her, but I wanted to know if anyone else experienced grading like this.
This is a common way to grade papers. All the grades will be averaged to compute your final grade. Any that require special weighting will get it.
Percentages are best used when things can be measured very specifically which is almost never the case with a paper so imo, this prof is going it right.
Yup it is pretty common. Many of my professor have done that. The letter grades generally translate into roughly a percentage, but you can ask her if you want some clarification. Also a great opportunity to get to know your professor
Totally normal. Course grades can be calculated the same way a GPA is calculated, and then convert that GPA into a letter grade. Blackboard and moodle etc can do this automatically.
That style is pretty common! Although in my college we don’t usually get physical copies of papers and tests back and so the grade goes on the computer! An A- would typically be a 90% so expect that and an A maybe 94, etc. something along the lines of that so when I get a 90% flash it means I got an A, 82% means B, etc. Don’t worry all the letters have to translate to percents so you can see online usually they’d be there!