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| Feb 28, 2016 at 22:02 | comment | added | gnasher729 | If the grading is incorrect then there will be people who pass or fail incorrectly. | |
| Feb 28, 2016 at 5:58 | comment | added | JeffE | especially if you didn't produce a very strong research output — So don't do that then. | |
| Feb 28, 2016 at 5:25 | comment | added | Autistic | If you are at a proper University and have mediocre grades that is much better than A passes from a diploma mill . Look at the MIT in the USA and compare it to the MIT in New Zealand .This is the Manakau Institute of Technology .The lecturers at MIT NZ would not get into the MIT USA as freshmen. | |
| Feb 28, 2016 at 5:16 | comment | added | user8001 | Those aware of grad school grading schemes are likely to view B grades very suspiciously, especially if you didn't produce a very strong research output. | |
| Feb 28, 2016 at 4:39 | comment | added | cfr | @Chan-HoSuh I don't doubt this happens but, if it actually matters beyond 'good enough', then the recipients are fooling themselves. GPAs from different schools are radically incommensurable. (Mine didn't even produce GPAs for graduate students.) Those which only count A/B as passes, for example - well, guess what? Almost all students get at least a B in all their courses. Somewhere else, the story will be different. Which doesn't mean it doesn't matter - if people count it, it can matter. But some places just want to see you did OK. The rest is irrelevant. | |
| Feb 28, 2016 at 2:59 | comment | added | Chan-Ho Suh | Grades are not so unimportant. If you ever go into industry or seek a teaching position or even research position at a lesser institution, they may ask for your grad school GPA. And it can very well matter. | |
| Feb 28, 2016 at 0:45 | comment | added | Bitwise | @BobBrown nothing wrong with that. But I think it is important to point out to OP that in the grand scheme of things, grades are a minor part of the PhD. | |
| Feb 27, 2016 at 23:05 | comment | added | Bob Brown | Well, it mattered to me. | |
| Feb 27, 2016 at 22:57 | comment | added | Bitwise | @BobBrown So A and B pass. Does it really matter if you get an A or a B as long as you pass? | |
| Feb 27, 2016 at 22:16 | comment | added | Bob Brown | Really? In the two graduate programs I know about, grades are A, B, and C-U-later. | |
| Feb 27, 2016 at 22:06 | history | answered | Bitwise | CC BY-SA 3.0 |