COLLEGE COMMUNICATIONS

February 18, 1943

GRADES FOR 1941-'42

 

TABLE I

Table I shows the grade point indices, or the number of frade points per
hour of credit, for each devartment,

Students from other schools of the University, though enrolled in College
classes, are not included in this study. Ia other words, both tables deal
with College students only,

The first column of figures shows the relative ranking of all departments
giving College work in 1941~'42; the second column gives the ranking in
1940-'41, The figures in parentheses to the right of the departmental
names show the relative ranking for 1941-'42 of the College departments
alone,

Tt seems that about 1,43 for Freshman-Sophomore work and about 162 207
Junior-Senior work were the median indices for 1941-'42,

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

TABLE IT

Table IT 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 de-
partments detracts from the significance of the several percentages shown.

'Relow is a comparison of the percentages of grades shown in the last five
studies for the College as a whole:

A B c D z E
1937—'38 Bio (8) 34.0 34,4 9.9 ea 4.3
1938—'39: Sak B50 Sete OS le 4.7
1939—'40 14, 7 a240 3555 7, 6.6 a 4,6
1940—'41 LS Oe. 34,9 3 Ae) 9,2 SO 4,2
1941-]'42 ie oT 34,7 39 ook 8,8 35 Aes

Note the quite general agreement of all the percentages 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‘ts and \B's.

Last year's grades show the highest percentage of A's and the lowest per-
centage 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 Col-
lege,