In addition, that person has not added to turnover costs. However, perhaps five more competent people, working a year each, would have added more value to the organization. However, we know that factors other than what is learned in college affect grades. Courses like math, biology, and physics give the lowest grades while requiring the greatest application. A person well versed in a subject can get an A in a class without attending, while a person who knows nothing about the subject needs to learn a lot to get a C .
Some students owe high grades to paying close attention to an instructor's grading quirks.
Cramming for tests yields grades, but little lasting effects. In short, some 2.00 students gain more from college than some who make the dean's list. While a positive correlation no doubt exists between GPA and the amount one profits from college, one may want to round out the picture with subjective judgments. Rather than deploring the findings because the measure of the concept is imprecise, we need to use our judgments to figure out what to make of them. In multiple-choice test questions, some alternatives are more wrong than others.