GPAs for Arts and Sciences vs. Engineering

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@Much2learn

For example, you could establish grading percentages, such as, up to 35% A’s, up to 50% B’s etc. These guidelines could be the same across majors.

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<p>However, if some majors or courses attract stronger students, then the same grading curve for all majors and courses may distort the information provided by the grades. Also, grading curves are best used in larger courses, since a given small course is more likely to have an unusually strong or weak group of students.</p>

<p>Re: <a href=“http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/Policies/ugrad.grading.shtml”>http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/Policies/ugrad.grading.shtml&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>That is a policy that seems to be largely ignored, despite being on the books. According to the grade distributions shown for the courses linked below, the average grade is a B for most courses, rather than B- (2.7, as suggested by the link above) for lower division courses. Some upper division courses’ average grades are B+ rather than B (the link above suggests a 2.9 for upper division courses).</p>

<p><a href=“https://schedulebuilder.berkeley.edu/explore/department/FL/2013/52”>https://schedulebuilder.berkeley.edu/explore/department/FL/2013/52&lt;/a&gt;
<a href=“https://schedulebuilder.berkeley.edu/explore/department/FL/2013/53”>https://schedulebuilder.berkeley.edu/explore/department/FL/2013/53&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;