

This is the top 10 students from the entrance exam at beginning of the series
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here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/Nj9ua.png)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/Nj9ua.png)

As you notice, some of the students got into B Class such as Ibara, Kendo,
Tesytetsu, and Awase. Why is that? How does UA assign class to their
prospective students?


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Why in My Hero Academia some of top 10 students from the entrance exam are in B class?


You seem to be thinking that "A is better than B" like it would mean on an
exam grade, explicitly ranking the classes, but that's not the naming system
in use here. [Typically in
Japan](https://www.reddit.com/r/japan/comments/4v4sx8/how_do_they_organize_classes_in_japan/)
it's the same as naming them Class Orange and Class Rhino. They're just
distinguishing between the groupings at the same grade level, not ranking
them.

Unlike in most American schools where everyone in the same grade tends to be
lumped together with fluid groups that vary between every single course and
travel between rooms for each of their courses, the Japanese system tends to
break the student body into chunks who all stay in one room as the teachers
themselves move between the classrooms. That's why classroom scenes always
start with the students already there, in the same room as always, and the
Teacher walking in just before beginning to teach.

So being "Class A" just means you're in Room A all the time (except for PE and
anything else that the room is inadequate for), not that you're among the
best. If your schools have ever had a "Homeroom" class, it'd be like grouping
you by "Mr. Fenster's Homeroom Class" and "Ms. Manotti's Homeroom Class".

A few schools _might_ use the secondary labels to imply some sort of
hierarchy, by trying to group like-minded or similarly-abled students
together, if they can support such variations in curricula, but this is not
necessary. And your entrance exam results imply a random coin-toss selection:
approximately half (6 of 10) went into one class, and the other approximate
half (4 of 10) went into the other.


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