diff --git a/exercises/concept/making-the-grade/.docs/hints.md b/exercises/concept/making-the-grade/.docs/hints.md
index 3e8deff958..8ee2ec6c34 100644
--- a/exercises/concept/making-the-grade/.docs/hints.md
+++ b/exercises/concept/making-the-grade/.docs/hints.md
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ Also being familiar with the following can help with completing the tasks:
 ## 2. Non-Passing Students
 
 - There's no need to declare `loop` counters or `index` counters when iterating through an object using a `for` loop.
-- A results counter does need to be set up and _incremented_ -- you'll want to `return` the count of non-passing students when the loop terminates. 
+
 
 ## 3. The "Best"
 
@@ -34,7 +34,6 @@ Also being familiar with the following can help with completing the tasks:
 
 - These are _lower thresholds_.  The _lower threshold_ for a "D" is a score of **41**, since an "F" is **<= 40**.
 - [`range()`][range] can be helpful here to generate a sequence with the proper "F" -> "A" increments.
-- [`round()`][round] without parameters should round off increments nicely.
 - As with "the best" task, `<list>.append()` could be useful here to append items from `range()` into a results `list`.
 
 ## 5. Matching Names to Scores
@@ -45,7 +44,6 @@ Also being familiar with the following can help with completing the tasks:
 ## 6. A "Perfect" Score
 
 - There may be or may not be a student with a score of 100, and you can't return `[]` without checking **all** scores.
-- The [`control flow`][control flow] statements `continue` and `break` may be useful here to move past unwanted values.
 
 [append and pop]: https://docs.python.org/3/tutorial/datastructures.html#more-on-lists
 [control flow]: https://docs.python.org/3/tutorial/controlflow.html#break-and-continue-statements-and-else-clauses-on-loops
diff --git a/exercises/concept/making-the-grade/.docs/introduction.md b/exercises/concept/making-the-grade/.docs/introduction.md
index 2ae6ea724d..f3ecdd877d 100644
--- a/exercises/concept/making-the-grade/.docs/introduction.md
+++ b/exercises/concept/making-the-grade/.docs/introduction.md
@@ -10,23 +10,6 @@ The keywords `break`, `continue`, and `else` help customize loop behavior.
 
 [`while`][while statement] loops will continue to execute as long as the `loop expression` or "test" evaluates to `True` in a [`boolean context`][truth value testing], terminating when it evaluates to `False`:
 
-```python
-
-# Lists are considered "truthy" in a boolean context if they
-# contain one or more values, and "falsy" if they are empty.
-
->>> placeholders = ["spam", "ham", "eggs", "green_spam", "green_ham", "green_eggs"]
-
->>> while placeholders:
-...     print(placeholders.pop(0))
-...
-'spam'
-'ham'
-'eggs'
-'green_spam'
-'green_ham'
-'green_eggs'
-```
 
 
 ## For
@@ -135,21 +118,6 @@ If both values and their indexes are needed, the built-in [`enumerate(<iterable>
 
 The [`continue`][continue statement] keyword can be used to skip forward to the next iteration cycle:
 
-```python
-word_list = ["bird", "chicken", "barrel", "bongo", "sliver", "apple", "bear"]
-
-# This will skip *bird*, at index 0
-for index, word in enumerate(word_list):
-    if index == 0:
-        continue
-    if word.startswith("b"):
-        print(f"{word.title()} (at index {index}) starts with a b.")
-
-'Barrel (at index 2) starts with a b.'
-'Bongo (at index 3) starts with a b.'
-'Bear (at index 6) starts with a b.'
-```
-
 
 The [`break`][break statement] (_like in many C-related languages_) keyword can be used to stop the iteration and "break out" of the innermost enclosing `loop`:
 
diff --git a/exercises/concept/making-the-grade/.meta/exemplar.py b/exercises/concept/making-the-grade/.meta/exemplar.py
index 5aa7508400..4c25865217 100644
--- a/exercises/concept/making-the-grade/.meta/exemplar.py
+++ b/exercises/concept/making-the-grade/.meta/exemplar.py
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ def count_failed_students(student_scores):
     non_passing = 0
     for score in student_scores:
         if score <= 40:
-            non_passing += 1
+            non_passing += 2
     return non_passing