William Wang           U of T Law School Adopts new grading system          May.11 2012

   Before an exam students are stressed over the exam and after the exams the stress turns to the letter grade that they will be getting. To prevent less stress to the students, throughout the last two years studies have been done to help reduce stress over letter grades. Many universities in the United States have adopted to the pass or fail concept instead of the using the letter grades to let students enjoy the course and not panic a about the grades.

    The University of Toronto has also adopted a new grading system, but instead of using the new pass or fail system they will now be using high Honours, Honours, Pass, Low Pass, and Fail to grade students. By doing this it defeats the purpose of removing stress from students but instead all it did was used a different wording for letter grades. Now instead of students worrying about getting a C- or a F they will stress about not getting Low pass, or fail. Like the author states in the article The University of Toronto should just change the grading system to different super heros since changing the system didn’t remove the main target or the students stress.

In my opinion I think that changing the letter grade to just the past or fail system was a really smart idea, because it helps prevents students from worrying and comparing about grades. I can also relate to the stress of having to meet a certain grade for example having a C+ and a B is a big difference even though it can just be separated by a percent. With The University of Toronto changing the system to high Honours, Honours, Pass, Low Pass, and Fail I thought that there was really no point because we are just using another word for the letter grades and does not prevent any stress.