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The system owes its name to the fact that each of the top four letter grades in it cover a range of nine points. The minimum passing mark under it is almost always 65%, or five points higher than in the more widely-used Tens System . The simplest variant of the Nines System is shown below:
The option exists to append "+" and "−" signs to each of the letters (but customarily not to the "F"), splitting each of the top four letter grades into three subdivisions, covering a span of three points each as nine is evenly divisible by three. This yields the following possible grades:
An "F+" (or "E") grade will sometimes be added, often with a range of 60 to 64, and less commonly an "F−" will exist as well, often for sub-50 grades. At some institutions the "A+" grade is not recognized, usually due to the fact that the Grade Point Average system is in use; when this scenario arises, the "A+" range shown above may merely be lumped in with the "A," or a more even division of the "A" category may be observed, for example by reckoning 96 to 100 as "A" and 92 to 95 as "A−." SEE ALSO |
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