GPA Calculation With No + or - Grades: Good or Bad?

3togo
Tue, 04 Sep 2007 09:35:35 +0000

I went to a school with “+” and “-” grades and for the vast majority of my friends having the “+” and “-” had a very negligible affect on our GPAs … for most kids after 4 years they had nearly the same number of "+"s and "-"s. A few, including me, managed to sneak over the “+/-” line a lot and have more "-"s than "+"s which means the scale actually hurt me a little bit.

But, IMO, a straight A, B, C, D, E grading scale is much more like how work is graded in the workplace and would be a preferred grading system. As doubleplay described determing how to prioritize time across multiple objectives is a prime skill for the workplace … and to me the A, B, C, D, E grade scale teaches this … without the false sense of precision adding "+"s and "-"s to a grading scale promotes.