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[quote=Anonymous]"9th grade counts the least. Junior year is the most important

This. A couple freshman Bs might not sink you if you stay on most rigorous course and sophomore and junior improve. A couple junior abs is a problem.

How sad is this that Bs in rigorous courses are a bad thing."

Some colleges will tell you that 9th grade counts the least, however, that comes with a large BUT.

The but is that many HS won't let you into the most rigorous 10th grade classes with Cs in 9th grade.

It's not sad that Bs in rigorous classes are a bad thing.  It's just different than when parents went to HS.

In my HS (and college and grad school) most grades were determined based on a curve.

So 3 out of 30 got As, about 12 got Bs, about 12 got Cs and 3 got Ds or Fs.  In that class, a B was not a bad thing.

Today most class grades are set up so that an A means you mastered the material, a B suggests intermittent mastery (say no more than 50%) and a C partial mastery.
Ds and Fs are likely students who show partial mastery but only attempt certain fractions of the material.  Class difficulty is set so that the curve should be 15 As, 10 Bs and 5 Cs.

I don't mean to imply that distribution is always or even often met.  What I'm trying to point out is that in a 10 question test, the 2 hardest questions from our schooling are no longer asked.

The test is not designed to separate good from great students.  Both good and great students should get As.[/quote]

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