Grading System: Why is there no letter " E " ?

Question

Why does the Grading System contain the letters A B C D and F but no E? This is from the School that want us to learn our ABCDEFs?

Answer 1

I've often pondered this myself, and the best explanation I can think of is that students and teachers might mistake an "E" for an "F," and vise-versa. Kids' (and sometimes teachers') handwriting is often hard to decipher, and just like the "T" and "F" issue for true/false questions, many a kid has tried to explain to a teacher that "That's a t, not an f, and you marked it wrong!" when clearly the child made an attempt to make the mark look like both a T and F, that way doubling the chances of getting the problem right ...and wrong...

Ok, I just did a search and this is what I found:

F (Also N or E or U): 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).

So, it seems as if sometimes, grading scales DO use E, for exceptionally poor, instead of F for fail.

You learn something new every day!

Hope this helps! ;-)

Answer 2

It's not true that there is not a grade of "E". We had them when I was in school. Every school district develops their own grading system, the most common one being the A,B,C,D,F system. But when I was in the early grades we had H,S,L, and U. Some schools use numbers, such as1,2,3,4.

So, the short answer is that's the system some schools picked. There is no more sense to it than that.

Answer 3

A lot of times in the lower elementary school grades (K, 1, 2, and maybe 3), the letters E, S, and U are ysed quite frequently.

E - Excellent
S - Satisfactory
U - Unsatisfactory

Answer 4

Well they want you to learn A through Z. Some School systems in USA do have E. Depends on what school you goto and If they want F to be 50% and less.
Don't ask such stupid questions.

Answer 5

E is used in lower grades for "Excellent". So an E is an A.

Answer 6

We got E's when I was in school. They changed it to F's at my school in the early 90's.

Answer 7

You never heard "got an E for effort"?

Answer 8

Some schools do have an "E" instead of a "F."
The reason they use "F" is to make it clear that you Failed.

Answer 9

I've always wondered this....maybe it's because E is for everyone :o