#2a: Amendment to the Harvard Uncertainty Principle: The B+ is Meaningless, But Less Meaningless In the Sciences

In subjects where there are absolute answers, the B+ is better defined.

Lump comments on the cross-departmental metamorphosis of the B+. "There's a big difference between a B+ on an English paper and on a chem test. [With the chem test] you're dealing with numbers. You're dealing with right and wrong answers, so a B+ is just a gradation. It can be somewhat objectively determined."

In many science courses, the B+ is sort of an achievement. In other classes, the B+ is downright easy to get. Last semester, students in Biological Sciences 2 accumulated 189 final grade of B+ or lower. Compare this statistics to "Chinese Family, Marriage and Kinship," where there were 280 grades of B+ or above and only 84 scores below B+.