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Grading foursomes

I began the semester with 36 students in two courses. Grades go in today. Look at all the fours! Unfortunately, WIU doesn’t have plus/minus grading, or I would have assigned five B+ and two C+ grades.

A: 4
B: 11
C: 4
F: 5
U: 4
W: 4
early drops: 4

The “U” is a non-punitive grade assigned in composition courses, basically “failed while trying”; no credit but it doesn’t count in GPA. W grades are drops after the add/drop date.

Anybody got “four” puns to spare?

Posted Tuesday, May 13th, 2008 at 11:12 am under Food, Teaching. Follow responses with the RSS 2.0 feed. Leave a response, or trackback.

3 Responses to “Grading foursomes”

  1. Dean writes:
    May 16th, 2008 at 1:48 pm

    When a clock is hungry it goes back four seconds.

  2. John writes:
    May 16th, 2008 at 5:43 pm

    Oh, man, I would love to have a U grade as an option.

  3. matt davis writes:
    May 17th, 2008 at 10:47 am

    Ah, grading. As I recall, that was always my favorite part of the normalization and discipline process.

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