I think this is generally a poor idea but when I studied medicine many of our examinations were pass/fail because they were competency-based. The pass-mark was high (70-80+%) but at the end of the day you didn't know if you got 75% or 95%. Not all exams were done this way but I can see there may be a role in some subjects, at some levels for pass/fail grading without a score.
When I was working as a lecturer in China I gave a whole bunch of my students zeroes because they plagiarised their assignments. The college informed me that I wasn't allowed to give zeroes to the students and even implied I should pass them anyway because they did hand something in and asked me to resubmit adjusted grades. I resubmitted the grades and simply didn't even list the students that cheated, and bumped up the scores of everyone who had done their assignment. If the scoring was going to be starting at 50%, not 0% then the students who had completed the task deserved higher scores but I wasn't going to be party to giving scores to people who had done literally no work. The college made up their own grades for the students who had cheated.
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