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Plus/minus system not penalizing student GPA

By Mateusz Palenik | January 20, 2014

Senior accountancy majorOK, a couple of problems with the “Plus/minus grading no friend to A students” by Blake Glosson.1. The plus/minus doesn’t penalize the “hardest workers.” It penalizes, should your professor choose to adopt it, the borderline...