COLLEGE COMMUNICATIONS

February 18, 1943

GRADES FOR 1941-'42

 

TABLE I

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

Students from other schools of the University, though enrolled in College
classes, are not included in this study. Ta other words, both tables deal
with College students only, 2

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-—S ophomore work and about 1.82 for
Tunior-—Senior work were the median indices for 1941-—'42,

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

TABLE IT

Table Il 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 An the dest «five:
studies for the College as a whole:

= . = w ZL _

1937-'38 1520, 34,0. 4 34,4 9.9 Lo 458
1938-39 15.15) 38.05 6135.24 20.5 eS 4.7
1939-"40 1407 32.9 35-74 10.6 15 406

: 1940—="41 i538 | 34,0 34.7 9,2 rey ase
1941-'42 Wet f) 34-7, 33.0 8.8 t35. 4.2

Note the quite general agreement of all the percentages for all etive 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 BES.

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 suverior students in the Col-
lege,