COLLEGE COM .SICATIONS

January 20, 1941
GRADES FOR 1939—*40
TABLE I

Table I shows the grade point indices, or the number of grade 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. In other words, both tables deal
with College students only.

The first column of figures shows the relative ranking of all departments
civing College work $n 1939='40; the second column dives the ranking in
1936-'39. The figures in parentheses to the right of the departmental
names show the relative ranking for 1939-'40 of the College departments
alone.

It seems that about 1,30 for Fres hman-S ophomore work and about 1.65 for
Junior-Senior work were the median College departmental indices for
1939—'40.

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 If

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:

A B c D , 4
1935~-'36 44 2 64,7 6.8 be Set
1936~'37 1456 30 Me CS A OS
1937-'38 4.6 4A UMS CUFF UP OS
1938="39 | 15,% 39,6 Wt 1655 445 AT
1939-'40 9 8.9 12 1

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 nearly half of the grades given during these years were A's and B's,

According to our catalogue, grade A stands for work of marked excellence,
grade B for very good work of much more than average quality, grade C

for work of good average character. It would seem, therefore, that there
should be an increase in the percentage of C grades at the expense of the
A'ts and B‘s,