COLLEGE COMMUNICATIONS

February 16, 1942
GRADES FOR 1940=!41

TABLE I

Table I shows the grade point indices, or the number of grade points per
hour of oredit, for each department,

Students from other sohools of the University, though enrolled in College
classes, are not included in this study, In other words, both tables deal

with College students only,

The first oolumn of figures shows the relative ranking of all departments
giving College work in 1940-'41; the seoond column gives the ranking in
1939-40, The figures in parentheses to the right of the departmental
names show the relative ranking for 1940—'41 of the College departments

alone,

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It seems that about 1,40 for Freshman-Sophomore work and about 1,70 for
Junior-Senior work were the me@ian College departmental indices for
1940—'41,

We are enolosing your own grade point index. It might be interesting to
compare it with your departmental index and also with the College index,

TABLE II

Table II is, we believe, self-explanatory, Note that the first column

of figures shows the number of enrollments of College students in the
several departments, Obviously the small number of grades considered in
some departments detracts from the significance of the several percentages
shown,

Below is a comparison of the percentages of grades shown in the last five
studies for the College as a whole;

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1936=°37 : Me 68 88S $4 2,6
1937~'38 1.0 M4 84.4 .F i868 48
1938-.'39 i 63,0 M2 MS 18 4
1939—'40 4,7 2,9 7 wae 1.9 48
1940-'41 6.5 “So 4,7 2 t6 4,32

Note the quite general agreement of all the veroentages for all five years,

Many people, both students and instructors, might be surprised to note
that about half of the grades given during these years were A*’s and B's,

Last year's grades show the highest percentage of A's, the highest per-

centage of B's, and the lowest percentage of failures in five years, It

is safe to say that never before have there been fewer poor students or

more superior students in the College than now, Undoubtedly the many

kinds and the large number of scholarships and their demand for superior
work play a large part in producing these high grades,