What ever happened to an E grade? We have A, B, C, D, F but no E. Why???????

Answer 1

I never went to school, so who knows.

In astronomy,
E stands for a March 1 through 15 discovery, in the provisional designation of a comet (e.g. C/1973 E1, Comet Kohoutek) or asteroid (e.g. (4178) 1988 EO1).
In the atmosphere of Earth, the E layer is part of the ionosphere.
In biochemistry, E is the symbol for glutamic acid and also often an abbreviation for enzyme.
In computing,
The letter e is often used as a prefix (with or without a subsequent hyphen) for other words to imply "electronic", such as e-mail or e-commerce.
E is also a programming language available for the Amiga. It's related to C and Pascal. See Amiga E.
The E programming language is an object-oriented language for secure distributed computing.
In computational complexity theory, the complexity class E is a variant of the class EXPTIME of problems solvable in exponential time.
In currency, E is sometimes used as symbol for the euro when the symbol € is not available.
In education, E is a very low grade, except in some grading systems such as the one used in the USA which goes from D to F, omitting E.
In electrochemistry, E is a symbol for electrode potential, and E° is a symbol for standard electrode potential.
In English slang, E is a term for Ecstasy or MDMA, a synthetic drug which is often used recreationally.
In film, E is a Canadian film from 1982; see E (film).
In finance, E is the New York Stock Exchange ticker symbol for ENI Spa
In gender-neutral pronouns, e is the Spivak pronoun meaning he or she.
In geography and weather forecasting, E stands for east, one of the four cardinal directions.
In the International Phonetic Alphabet, /e/ refers to the close-mid front unrounded vowel. Its turned counterpart, /ə/, stands for the mid central vowel or schwa.
In legal metrology, the "estimated" sign (the symbol ℮) following a measurement of quantity (e.g., 750 ml ℮) is used to indicate that the measurement of weight or volume is done according to preset rules with specific allowable variances.
In international licence plate codes, E stands for Spain (España).
In mathematics,
e is Euler's number, a transcendental number (approximately equal to 2.718281828459045235360287471352) which is used as the base for natural logarithms.
E is also used to signify ×10y; i.e. 7e8 is 7×108 or 700,000,000.
E is often used as a digit meaning fourteen in hexadecimal and other positional numeral systems with a radix of 15 or greater.
In the SI system, E, exa, is the SI prefix meaning 1018.
In music, E is a note.
In nutrition, E is a vitamin.
In physics, E is,
The symbol for energy, as in E = mc2 (see E=mc²).
The symbol for electric field.
In particle physics, e is the symbol for the electron.
Also in semiconductor physics, e may represent elementary charge.
As the first letter of a postal code,
In Canada, E stands for New Brunswick.
In the United Kingdom, E stands for East London.
In probability and statistics, a capital E or blackboard bold denotes expected value.
In set theory, denotes set membership.
In sports, E# refers to a team's elimination number.
In structural engineering, E stands for the modulus of elasticity.
In symbolic logic, ∃ (a backwards E) is the symbol for "there exists...", called the existential quantifier. Example: .
In video games, E is the ESRB rating symbol for Everyone.
鄂, or È is an abbreviation for the Hubei province of the People's Republic of China.
E is the pseudonym of Mark Oliver Everett, lead singer of The Eels.
E! (Entertainment Television) is an American cable television and direct broadcast satellite network.
In Romania, E is a symbol of parthenogenesis.
In X Window System, E is short for Enlightenment (X window manager).
In Polish locomotives designation E stands for electric locomotive.

Answer 2

E is excellent, S is satisfactory and N is needs improvement. In our grade school they are still used along with numbers 1-4 and also with the specials ie:gym, art, library and music.

Answer 3

E grade is usually used in elementary school E meaning excellant.

Answer 4

People no longer get excellent grades Mr. Prez

Answer 5

They still use it in some high schools (an E is like a F).

Answer 6

Because E comes after G....sheesh!

Answer 7

times are a changing. when i went to school it was the old format.

Answer 8

Well, Mr. President - That is our American "Education" System for you!

Answer 9

i don't know why they have to be all prejudiced against the E

i had some E once.......it made me feel real funny...it was at a concert......

Answer 10

We had "E" in preschool and in elementary I guess it just fell away.