Changing grades

A NZ Initiative report looks at grade distribution in NZ universities from 2006 to 2024. they find:

• Es static at 3%
• Ds from 9% to 5%
• Cs from 20% to 17%
• Bs from 47% to 38%
• As from 22% to 36%

If you assign an average score of 87% for an A, 72% for a B, 57% for an C, 45% for a D and 20% for an E, then the average score in 2006 was 69% which was a B- and in 2024 was 71% which was a B.