<p>AKitta, that is a shame. At my school, an A- is equal to a 4.0, which is true at only a few other schools. An A- is a 92-94 here. According to my school, I have a 4.0, with only a few A-s, and I will go insane if they try to change it to a 3.7 or something, becasue we were told a As were the sma eon the unweighed scale.</p>
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From what I saw, it's easier to get a 95%+ more in the US than in Canada. Do you have multiple-choice tests and all? We have "competencies",kind of subscores, about 3 by class. Like reading, being able to give answers to scientific problems and such.</p>
<p>I think 100%'s are not very common because it's perfection. You must actually be ahead of your classes to get a 100% here.
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Our finals contain a lot of MC questions, but have many essays too. From day to day though, MCs are exceedingly rare. Now the problem with online classes is that most every question is an MC and many times the teacher made ones are wrong. </p>
<p>You can be very ahead of the class here and no one would give you a 98 at my school. I got a 98 in English I honors for the following reasons:
1. It's the easiest class here.
2. The state mandates the standardized final will be 25% of the final grade, and I made a 100 on that easy thing (although it's the 99th percentile).
3. The teacher liked me. :)
4. According to standardized testing, I have a Post-Graduate reading level.</p>
<p>Then there are students at other schools who read on a 9th grade level and think their 100 means they're better in English. Unfortunately, it is illegal to skip any English class so I'll probably self-study AP English lang & lit.</p>
<p>4.0 this year as a freshman...complete joke with sleeping in class, computer all day, gaming all day, movies, not a moment of studying.</p>