Stanford grading system

Colleges & Universities Stanford University
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<p>Can anyone describe it please? Do they use +/-?</p>

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<p>Yes, lots of “+” next to those many “A’s!”</p>

<p>:p</p>

<p>But yes, they do have “+” and “-” modifiers with the traditional A,B,C,D,F system, I believe.</p>

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<p>We get what we deserve, DRab.</p>

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<p>how is grading in science classes (math, phys, engineering, etc)?</p>

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<p>can you be more specific? your question doesn’t make sense…</p>

<p>“how is grading?” grading is grading…</p>

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<p>umm…ok…how ‘competitive’ is the grading system? is it on a curve, is there inflation etc etc</p>

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<p>Bump----------------------------------</p>

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<p>Well this pretty much sums it up, I think.
<a href=“http://math.stanford.edu/~vakil/034/grades.html[/url]”>http://math.stanford.edu/~vakil/034/grades.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>7 A+'s out of 24 students, and lowest grade a C+. Go figure.</p>

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<p>That’s good news for me :)</p>

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<p>geeez that’s a lot of A+s… what class is that?</p>

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<p>Um? That is an MIT class?</p>

<p>Only MIT designates courses with numbers like “18.034” and it’s also indicative that the e-mail address on the page is for MIT.</p>

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<p>^^zephyr has a point.</p>

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<p>18.034 is actually a very difficult class that only the top math students (intending math majors) bother taking. Now if that grade distribution was in an introductory level class it would be cause for concern/celebration, but when 650 students take Diff Eq without theory and 20 students take the theory-based version, I don’t think it’s too farfetched that they may earn their grades.</p>

<p>P.S. yes, that’s an mit class</p>

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<p>i like how ‘just use my name i dont care’ pulled the A+. i wonder why he/she didnt care?</p>

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<p>right.</p>

<p>all of this is off topic, fyi – since this is an MIT course</p>

<p>btw, prof. vakil is AWESOME, awesome, awesome…</p>