Letter Grade System: Why do they skip the letter E?

Answer 1

http://ask.yahoo.com/20060103.html

"About that "E" grade -- some schools have used the E instead of F, but we speculate too many students tried to convince their parents the "E" stood for "excellent." It's much harder to trick parents into believing an "F" stands for "fantastic."

Some academics oppose this system of grading. One Stanford University professor claims students tend to take only courses in which they can get good grades. It would be much better, he states, if students explored courses in subjects of interest to them and there were no grades. Where was this guy when we were in school? "

Answer 2

Systems that drop the letter may have done so to get away from the denotation of E = excellent, S = satisfactory and N = not satisfactory and U = unsatisfactory Most systems adopted a number based system for evaluation from 0 - 100, and the scores may look something like this: A = 90-100, B = 80-89, C = 75-79, D = 70 - 74, and F = 69 or below. If E flowed into the A - F categories, it may be misunderstood.

Answer 3

* F (Also N or E): Failure or Exceptionally Poor; or bottom 60% (0-59) = 0.00

Percentage ranges may vary from one school to another. In some schools, these ranges may even vary from one class to another.

Whether the failing grade is F or E typically depends on time and geography. Some states, but not many, have tended to favor E since World War II while the majority of the country tends to use F. Ultimately, the grade F traces to the days of two-point grading as Pass (P) and Fail (F).

Answer 4

Old system
Excellent
Satisfactory
Needs Improvement
Unsatisfactory

New System:
A- Excellent
B- Good
C- Average
D- Below Average
F -Fail

The E is skipped to avoid confusion between the two systems.

Answer 5

Because in the olden days and some schools even now the "E" is used to indicate Citizenship: U = unsatisfactory, S = satisfactory E = excellent.

Answer 6

E = Excellent. Hard to say that Excellent falls between a D and an F.

Answer 7

Same type of thing everyone else is saying. When I was in school, our grading scale was:

E-Excellent
S-Satisfactory
M-Meeting requirements
I-In need of improvement (something like that)
F-Failure

Our school changed around my sophomore/junior year.

Answer 8

Because E means excellent!

Answer 9

That is like asking why the ACT skips 'i' in its answer sheet. Nobody knows.

Answer 10

Because "E" could be misinterpreted as excellent or exceptional.