<p>Just got my final report card for my first year of highschool!!!!!!!! Unfortunately, my school uses the 0%-100% scale when it comes to grades but I would like to find out what it is at on the GPA scale (0.0-4.0). Anyways, my mark is 88.4% and any help would be greatly appreciated. Would my mark be 3.53%?</p>
<p>P.S Unweighted, sad but true.</p>
<p>Unweighted, a B is 3.0.</p>
<p>"Would my mark be 3.53%?"</p>
<p>No percentage mark at the end. "%" literally means "out of 100". Per/cent is a combination of latins "per" and "centi". Just a little trivial trivia</p>
<p>88.4% would be translated by most schools as a B+ or a 3.3 GPA.</p>
<p>Haha, I see what you did. You divided 88.4 by 25. Very creative. The GPA scale is not linear like the 0%-100% scale. A 50% mark would translate to a 0.0 GPA, not a 2.0 GPA. </p>
<p>I assume that anything below 60% is failing at your school; well anything below 1.0 is failing in the grade point system. The GPA numbering system is skewed to the top 40%. So a 3.3 GPA is very good.</p>
<p>You can calculate your unweighted GPA by finding the average "grade points" of all of your classes:
Things in the A range (90-100) count as 4 points. B range counts as 3, C range as 2, lets hope your grades don't go below that. Add up the total point values corresponding to your grades and divide by number of classes.
Ex: GPA for an A and a B
A=4
B=3
4+3=7
7/2classes=3.5 gpa.</p>
<p>This number will not necessarily be your definite GPA, though: your weighted GPA will take into consideration AP and sometimes honors courses you have taken, by adding quality points onto your grades. Also, some GPAs are calculated without averaging in stupid things like gym. Some schools may calculate GPA's with more accuracy using 3.5's for middle grades like B+'s. Lots of changes can occur.
All of the possible quirks in calculation above explain why colleges view the standardized tests with higher priority than gpa.</p>