The school where I studied CS as an undergrad didn't even have grades. It was all about the narrative evaluation, which considered only things the student actua

The school where I studied CS as an undergrad didn't even have grades. It was all about the narrative evaluation, which considered only things the student actually accomplished or learned. So a typical narrative evaluation in the sciences would have a sentence for each of the course topics that a student demonstrated some knowledge of somehow at any point in the course, like a discrete math course might have "He showed an excellent understanding of number theory proofs in the coursework and final exam." If you really screwed it up, your evaluation wouldn't say anything bad, but it would be damned with faint praise and they could reduce your academic credits. Overall it's a much higher resolution picture of a student's education. I transferred from a school with traditional grades and I prefer the narrative system. It really stressed out a lot of students who were too indoctrinated in the traditional game process of getting the right number of points for their target grade; some of them never quite figured out that they should just focus on actually learning the subject.