The UNC Grading System

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The UNC Grading System
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Grades

• Graduate (CS only)
• H H H-
• P P P-
• L L L-
• F
• AB FA
• IN NG
• S

• Undergraduate
• A A-
• B B B-
• C C C-
• D D
• F
• AB FA
• IN NG
• (PS W)

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GPA
A 4.0 C 2.3
A- 3.7 C 2.0
B 3.3 C- 1.7
B 3.0 D 1.3
B- 2.7 D 1.0
F 0.0
If you take a course more than once, all count in
your gpa, but only one counts for graduation
hours. Thats not true at all schools.
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UNC grade requirements

• You need a 2.0 gpa to move from one year to the
  next.
• You need a 2.0 gpa to graduate.
• You can take more than 18 hours in one semester
  only if you received at least 3.0 the previous
  semester and 2.5 overall, except for second
  semester seniors who can take up to 20 hours if
  they have 2.0 or better.

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CS grade requirementsfor undergraduates

• You need a C or better in the 9 introductory
  courses (COMP, Math, Physics) to be admitted to
  the major (no requirement for COMP 110 or 116).
• You need a C- or better and a C average in
  courses that count toward the CS major.

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UNC grade requirementsfor graduates

• Get an F or 9 hours of L and you get kicked out!
  (Readmission the first time is generally easy).

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CS grade requirementsfor graduates

• We expect our Ph.D. student to receive at least
  half Hs. We compute this using the Calingaert
  Number.

H H H- P P P- L L L-
5 3 1 -1 -3 -5 -7 -9 -11
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Undergraduate Classifications

• Classifications FR, SO, JR, SR, FYR (freshman,
  sophomore, junior, senior, fifth-year) indicate
  undergraduate students. Additional codes are
• SPU Special Undergraduate Non-Degree
• II Inter-Institutional
• SDS Special Degree Seeking and Off-Campus Nursing
  Program
• FX Foreign Exchange
• FYR Fifth Year (Pharmacy)
• VS Visiting Student
• These students get undergrad grades, except

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Graduate and Professional Classifications

• GD Grad Doctoral
• GM Grad Masters
• GPM Grad Post Masters
• GMD Grad Masters then Doctoral
• GPD Grad Post Doctoral
• SPG Special Graduate Non-Degree
• 1ST First Year MBA or Professional
• II Inter-Institutional
• FX Foreign Exchange
• SPP Professional Non-Degree
• SDS Currently used for Off-Campus Professional
  Pharmacy
• Grad students taking courses under 400 get
  undergrad grades.

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Grade reporting
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Grade reporting
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Grade reporting

• Write neatly. Someone has to read the grade.
• Department keeps a copy.
• You keep a copy.
• Theres no feedback (other than students
  complaints) that the grade you wrote is the grade
  that was recorded.
• We can check individual grades.

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In the future

• We will access a web page showing a list of our
  students and for each, just the grades for which
  they are eligible and a set of radio buttons.
• We will be able to bring up a web page showing
  the grades that were actually recorded.
• Maybe, starting fall 2010.

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Changing a grade

• Changing a temporary grade is easy.
• Changing a permanent grade is harder. Only valid
  reason is clerical error.
• Student can appeal a grade.