<p>Ive had this burning question. Why is there no “E” for letter grades? </p>
<p>Was it because they must need the F to stand for Failure?</p>
<p>Or is E just a special letter?</p>
<p>Someone answer!!!</p>
<p>lol</p>
<p>Quite random.</p>
<p>The letter E probably looks too positive. F connotes… horrible things.</p>
<p>But perhaps that negative connotation was built up from the fact that “F” is the lowest grade ;)</p>
<p>e = excellent
it does look positive.</p>
<p>Not to nit pick, but everyone has different connotations for words. Yes, we can generalize that E is more positive than F, but that may be caused by the fact F is already associated with the lowest grade. I mean, one could say that e = egregious if you were to use that argument :P.</p>
<p>well, mine was only an example.</p>
<p>F = FAIL</p>
<p>all that’s to it</p>
<p>someone may perceive F as fantastic…but…who am i kidding fail is the first word that comes to mind</p>
<p>my online class offers “E” as the lowest grade. must be a euphemism for F.</p>
<p>E for euphemism, therefore its not bad, but only implies that something else is bad.</p>
<p>no, I mean F stands for FAIL. That’s why there is no E</p>
<p>The lowest grade you can get at my school is an “E.” The teachers don’t give out F’s at all</p>
<p>really. that sounds kind of cool.</p>
<p>My school only goes down to E, and we can’t even get an A+! The reason they use the letter “E” though is because i guess a FAiled test (F) is degrading? at least that’s what they said when I asked. Oh well.</p>
<p>Haha. Well, when I said F connoted negative things, I was thinking more along the lines of the F word. But other F words work too… fail.</p>
<p>We had Es in IGCSE grading. It went A*, A, B, C, D, E, F, U. I got an E on an art exam.</p>
<p>U is the lowest grade then? that is interesting.</p>
<p>Yep, standing for ungraded. Means that its really bad- I think less than 5% of the marks correct. I knew a girl in my year who got a U on the math exam. You have to be really bad to get a U.</p>
<p>Hm. “I got a U.” That sounds quite awkward.</p>
<p>Yeah I guess. I’m just used to it. Now we use 1-7, don’t even have letters. Besides the English no one really uses letters.</p>