COLLEGE COMMUNICATIONS
January 3, 1939

GRADES FCR 1937-'38

TABLE I

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Table I shows the grade point index, or the number of grade points ver
hour of sredit, for each department.

Students from other sshools of the University, though enrolled in Coilege
classes, are not included ia this steady. In other words, both tables deal
oniy with Coilege students.

The first column of figures shows the reiative ranking of all departments
Civing College work in 1937--'38; the second column gives the ranking in
1936<'37, The figures in parentheses to the right of the departmental
raaes show the relative ranking for 1937-'38 of the Coliege departments
ALone,

It seems that abcut 1,34 for Freshman+Sophomore work and about 1,74 for
Junior=Senior work were the median College departmental indices for
1937-."38,

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 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,

Below is a comparison of the perdentages of grades shown in the last four
studies for the College as a whole:

A B c D I E
1934-35 16.6 33.5 33,7 9,2 cas 4.7
1935=+'36 16,8 33,2 34.7 8.8 1.8 4.7
1936—'37 14.6 33,0 36,9 9.4 Ze 5.9
1937-'38 15.0 34.3 34.4 9.9 1e® 4,8

Note the rather general agreement in all the percentages of all four years.

Many people, both students and instructors, might be surprised to note
that 49 per cent of the grades given last year were Ats and B*s.

In 1929~'30 when the last previous grade study was made, 44.3 per cent of
the grades were A*s and B*s while 8.2 per cent were F's, Evidently in
recent years we are grading more liberally or students are doing better
work or both,

According to our catalogue definitions of the several grades, it would
seem that there should be an increase in the percentage of C grades at
the expense of the A’s and B's,