531: Letter-Grades May 22, 2016

The letter-grading system goes A, B, C, D for the passing grades in descending order, but there is no E anymore; it skips to F. The rationale is that none of the first four letters are abbreviations for words: only a representation of grade-intervals, while the F stands for 'failure'.
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