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Re:Grade Inflation at UC Riverside, and Institutional Pressu... by kjkjadksj on Wednesday February 14, 2024 @11:50AM (#39372017)
At some colleges if you retake a course and get a higher grade, that’s the grade and the old one stops weighing down the gpa calculation. This was not an uncommon route to pass a chemistry series.
Re:Grade Inflation at UC Riverside, and Institutional Pressu... by BeFlatXIII on Wednesday February 14, 2024 @03:24PM (#39374805)
That sounds fair. Grades should assess the student's mastery of the material. If they flunked the first time and earned a B+ on the retry, why hold their initial failure over them? They already paid with the opportunity cost of retaking the course instead of having that slot freed for something else.