So my school changed from a 7 point grading scale to a 10 point grading scale and it sated that instead of using letter grades, they will start using numerical grades on our transcripts. When they say numerical grades do they mean our percentage in that class, or just like 4.00 for A and 3.00 for B?
They likely mean percentages.
Really? Because I did some research and most places said that the numerical grades were just the 4.00 and 3.00
The numerical grades like a 3.0 and a 4.0 might mean your GPA. A lot of schools use a 4.0 scale when determining a student’s GPA. As for the actual change from letter grades to numerical grades, I would assume they mean percentages.
I’ll assume that you are living in NC, because I am and they are doing that with us too. What I think it means is that grades will be reported on the transcript as your percentage grade, rounded up or down. For instance, if you got an 89.505% in a class, it would be recorded on a transcript as a 90. In other words, they are trying to take the meaning out of letter grades and show exact scores to colleges. If a college saw a 90 and then an 89, they wouldn’t see the same difference as if they saw an A and a B.
If you use PowerSchool for grades, like we do, they are shown as numerical grade only – no letter grade. You may have noticed this if your school uses PowerSchool.