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A comment on Grade Inflation at UC Riverside, and Institutional Pressures for Easier Grading. Parent comment

Re:Grade Inflation at UC Riverside, and Institutional Pressu... by andrewmutz on Wednesday February 14, 2024 @07:49PM (#39377726)
> Grades inform potential employers where a student's strengths and weaknesses are.

As a potential employer, I would prefer to know where the student landed relative to their peers rather than an absolute score.

Maybe in addition to the absolute score we could know the students percentile score in the class.

It's not impressive to get an A at Harvard, all that says is they aren't in the bottom 21% of the class. Being in the top 10% of the class is impressive.

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Re:Grade Inflation at UC Riverside, and Institutional Pressu... by sudosysgen on Wednesday February 14, 2024 @09:53PM (#39378569)
Do transcripts in the US not show the class average?
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Re:Grade Inflation at UC Riverside, and Institutional Pressu... by MichaelNolan on Thursday February 15, 2024 @01:04AM (#39379623)
Not at any US college/university that I’m aware of. Mine certainly don’t. It’s an interesting idea though.
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Re:Grade Inflation at UC Riverside, and Institutional Pressu... by sudosysgen on Thursday February 15, 2024 @01:28AM (#39379734)
Huh. Mine does, from a Canadian university.
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