I hope whoever made this grading scale is burning in hell
skill issue
>>17041974No this was made to demoralize the ones who got 92
What's the matter, insufficient ability to think effectively? Try downloading more RAM and then fucking yourself.
>>17041970I've been turning my grading scale around like golf, mistakes give you points and a lower score means a better grade. Students fucking hate it
>>17041970Why?
>>17041970Why does it matter when there's no standardization of how grades are assigned? A 100 at MLK High School might be inferior to a 70 at the Edward Witten International Academy.
At Harvard University about 95% of students get straight As. This is because at the most elite institutions, grade inflation is not only expected but demanded by the parents and the donors.The system realized that assigning grades to the Harvard students led to this horrible outcome where the students who got admitted on merit actually outperformed the legacies and rich donors kids. This was unacceptable.Therefore merit got thrown out because the rich kids needed to be getting A’s too.As a side effect, all the black and female affirmative action students started getting A’s too. That was great, because then the rich kids could actually demonstrate that they were better than some of their other Harvard graduates. They were able to solidify their superiority institutionally and in the competitive market, with the simple trick of marginalizing anyone who got in via meritocracy.And here we are
>>17041980embracing equity aren't you
>>17041970Grading entirely based on a pre-defined scale is, in my experience, suboptimal. You should have one, but you should be flexible with it. In my experience the distribution of student scores is multi-modal, especially undergrad. The chaff will form a broad peak at the end. They won't make it in the long term either way but some may get lucky to just barely skirt the passing grade and you should only make sure almost nobody is barely passing/failing. Those that do barely fail or pass you should carefully double check and think about whether you consider them failing/passing a fair assessment. If you know your students and you don't have a shit year the top 3-4 people oftentimes won't be meaningfully better or worse than one another, even if their score varies. They form a small peak at the end of the score distribution. That doesn't mean they should get all As, but you should grade with the understanding that a written test does not have that high a resolution.The bulk of people will make a third, broad bump across the rest of the spectrum.This kinda approach is a combination of grading on a curve versus a fixed scale, and in my experience actually captures people's aptitude more reliably than either.
>>17041970would you rather they say 93.00 - 100.00, 85.00 - 92.99, etc.?
>>17042017The problem of "elite universities" is that their existence is fundamentally parasitic. You can give them 30 times the resources but they will never produce 30 times better students, let alone 30 times more students. They only have a few 10k students at most just like any other, but with X times the non-academic staff, often outnumbering the academic staff by an integer factor. Resources are finite and those funds are missing for the rest of the academic system, which basically winds up with the vast majority of universities in such a system being so backwater their degrees might as well not count, neither domestically nor internationally. That leaves you with an absolute dogshit median, and the only way to even try and recover from that is by rigging the average.
>>17042075Sending the entirety of the housing projects of Baltimore to Harvard wouldn't create a bunch of brilliant hoodrats.
>>17042091Anon, maybe take your meds and try think of something other than blacks for 41 picoseconds of your sad excuse for a life. The argument is that academic institutions do not improve arbitrarily if you fund them with arbitrary amounts of money, and that a high ceiling performance (of the top 1-10%) does not and never will compensate for a nonexistent floor (bottom 80%)
>>17042101you are mentally ill
>>17042105You barged into a thread and (You)d me with a non-sequitur about blacks and have yet to show any comprehension of the words I am saying beyond keyword recognition. I don't know what kinda deficiency you have but I am sure there's an affirmative action position for whatever undiagnosed thing you've got.
>>17042109NTA but hoodrats in Baltimore pjs doesn't mean they're black; plenty of white people live there, too; hoodrats in urban pjs = geography and social circle ≠ race.
>>17041980Thats pretty funny
>>17042122The funniest thing is I would even agree that you can't pick someone at random from the slums and expect them to perform well academically, but even that is so removed from the point I was making that I am a flabbergasted what brought it up.Thanks for clarifying though. Still a very interesting topic in its own right.
I propose a simpler system. Pass or fail only. Anything less than 100 is failure.
>>17042161I agree. There are 2^595 binary colorings of a 5x7x17 matrix: how many of those have no monochromatic row, column, or hypercolumn? Exact answer; pass or fail.
>>17042190Trick question. We accept non-binary now.
>>17042190The answer is my cock in your throat. It might be the wrong answer but you need to check first.
>>17041970Americans and their retarded bullshit only Americans have to deal with will never cease to amaze the non-Americans.
>>17042011This. Which is exactly why the woke crowd wants colleges to stop caring about your SAT and just look at GPA
>>17042258>>17042011Standardization is factually irrelevant if your entire academic culture worships name recognition. No employer will care that you had a top score in standardized test #9/11-B if you are from flyover turd U that ranks in the bottom 10th percentile of the country. It would require fixing the entire system from the ground up.
>>17041977You are more agitated then a man trying to quit nicotine.
>>17042017Weird chip on the shoulder there.>all the black and female affirmative action students started getting A’s tooThere's barely any blacks in Harvard and crying about women makes no sense in 2026. Like pick a better struggle to cry about.
>>17042433NTA but did crying about women make sense in 2025?
>>17042223American grading isA+ 97-99A 93-96A- 90-92B+ 87-89B 83-86B- 80-82C+ 77-79C 73-76C- 70-72D 67-69D- 65-66F 0-64
>>17042432The inferior mind ejaculates its subaltern inefficiency toward the superior mind in an attempt at ego defending self-affirmation.
>>17042441There's no such thing as "American grading". There are nearly 100k public schools in the US, along with about six thousand institutions of higher learning. Some use a ten point scale, some use a seven point scale, some use plus and minus letter grades while others do not. Some are pass/fail. No doubt there are some schools in the US that use the grading scheme you posted but it's just one out of many different grading schemes.
>>17042552What American school uses a different grade map?
>>17042433>There's barely any blacks in Harvard and crying about women makes no sense in 2026. Like pick a better struggle to cry about.are you shitting me? blacks and women are insanely over-represented at Harvard. Blacks got a huge bump there during the 2021-2023 admission seasons. And if i’m not wrong Harvard has had majority woman undergraduate populations for at least 10 yearsthis reminds me of the drama where nobody ever looked at Asian and Jewish eneollment at Harvard until Ron Unz did his fringe thing, and then after 10 years it won in the supreme court. on behalf of asians of course (Jews OTOH were magically not at all addressed)
>>17042564Sealioning is trolling, a loathsome form of attention seeking behavior that indicates an effeminate mind. Or maybe you really are that stupid. Or you're a zoom zoom, which means you think your experience is the only experience. Go back to /b/ if you're going to continue acting like a complete fucktard. /sci/ is for actual fact based discussion.
>>17042628wtf is sealioning?
>>17043212it's when you flood someone with disingenuous requests for explanations and evidence, like sea lions do
>>17043221Fucking sea lions, they're notorious for disingenuous requests for clarification. Every fucking time. Those fucks ruined the ocean.
>>17043239Sealions are better than felines, so you shut your mouth.
>>17042628How about you pull your sealioning head out of your sealioning ass before you talk at me, butthead
>>17043239
>>17043248Cute>>17043241NTA but fuck you, cat hater
>>17042628>Sealioning is trolling[Citation needed]
>>17043253Touche.
>>17043249That guy got radicalized against his cat lol
>>17041970Wait until you're in grad school and anything less than a straight B is failing
>>17043816The only reason I can think of that you’d get less than an A in grad school is if you got a perfunctory F for enrolling in a class and dropping it too late. What on earth would you have to do to get a B
>>17043249deaf cat
