{"id":5666,"date":"2022-03-01T06:39:39","date_gmt":"2022-02-28T20:39:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2dpoint.net\/?p=5666"},"modified":"2022-03-01T06:39:39","modified_gmt":"2022-02-28T20:39:39","slug":"why-is-there-no-e-grade-in-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2dpoint.net\/why-is-there-no-e-grade-in-schools\/","title":{"rendered":"Why is there no \u2018E\u2019 grade in schools?"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading Time: <\/span> < 1<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>
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  1. Alphabets as grades are believed to have been first used in 1883 by Harvard University.<\/span><\/li>\n
  2. Gradually, other institutions started grading students with letters.<\/span><\/li>\n
  3. The first institute to fully adopt this grading system is said to be Mount Holyoke College in Massachusetts, USA.<\/span><\/li>\n
  4. Here, an A meant 95%-100%, B was 85%-94%, C 76%-84%, D 75%, and anything under 75% was an E, which meant Fail.<\/span><\/li>\n
  5. By the 1930s, the grading system had grown quite popular as more and more institutions began using it.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n
  6. It was around this time that E was omitted from the grading system.<\/span><\/li>\n
  7. This was done, so students or parents don\u2019t misinterpret E as \u201cExcellent\u201d.<\/span><\/li>\n
  8. Letter grades are much less preferred these days and are mostly used in elementary schools.<\/span><\/li>\n
  9. This is so because of a lack of consistency with its use and, therefore, lack of transferability across institutions.<\/span><\/li>\n
  10. E.g., 80% marks would remain 80% across schools, but an A- could be a B+ in another school.<\/span><\/li>\n
  11. The fact that they represent ranges (A = 95% to 100%) also don\u2019t go well with many experts.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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