<p>I was looking at how UCB calculates GPA and all that. I know that A+ and A grades have a 4.0 GPA, and an A- grade has a 3.7 gpa, etc. but, i was just wondering what exactly is an A+ or an A. Does a 96%-100% count as an A+ and a 93%-95% count as an "A?" Or, I was thinking do different professors have different criteria regarding the calculations of the final grades? Thanks! :)</p>
<p>Don’t worry about these details. It’s not like in high school where you know every step of the way where you stand and how borderline you are. You can go from a C to an A if you kill the final in some classes and vice versa. To answer your question, it depends on the professor.</p>
<p>A+ are normally not given out in most classes anymore, because the University awards a 4.0 Unit score for both letter grades. There is no GPA difference between the two.</p>
<p>In Berkeley, the 90% A, 80% B etc. system IS NOT used in most of the classes. Each class has a specific amount of students that can attain an A, or a B, or a C. Such as for the organic chemistry lower division classes, the grading scale is 15% A’s, 35% B’s, 40% C’s, and the bottom 10% will fail the class. </p>
<p>This means that, in order to get at least an A-, you must be in the top 15% of your class, or top X % of your class, depending on the professor, it does not depend on your own individual performance. </p>
<p>Oh, that makes sense. Thanks a lot! 
also, in order to check your grades, i’m assuming there’s an online portal to do so, right? the professor couldn’t possibly be handing back all 100+ exams. :D</p>
<p>This varies from course to course.</p>
<p>Lets say for a large course, such as Bio 1A, the lower division bio course that enrolls about 900 each semester, exams would be handed back in your discussion section, which is like a meeting with a small number of students and a graduate student as your instructor, instead of the class lecture, which contains all 900 or so students and the professor talking.</p>
<p>Other classes upload them to a website called space</p>