<p>I'm take 4 courses worth 3 credit hours each, and 2 courses for 1 credit hour each. Thus a total of 14 credit hours. How exactly is my GPA calculated? Lets say these are my grades:</p>
<p>English (3hrs)-A
Math (3)- A
Science (3)- B
History (3) - B</p>
<p>Business (1)-A
Communications (1) -B</p>
<p>What would my GPA be?</p>
<p><a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=210770%5B/url%5D">http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=210770</a></p>
<p>i started a thread on this a while back and there's a conversation system in there for college grades. i think that may be helpful or at least I hope it helps.</p>
<p>Wasn't what I was looking for. I'm already framilar with the 4.0 grading system. I'm trying to find out if an A in a 3 credit hour course affects you more than an A in a 1 credit hour course.</p>
<p>if they are all worth the same credit hours then they are equally weighted. and yes, a 3 credit hour course will affect your gpa more than a 1 credit hour class because it comprises a great portion of your overall gpa. I believe this is how it is done at most schools, but you will need to double check with your school</p>
<p>Usually what they do (my school anyway, and I've heard lots of others do it this way as well) is assign A=4, B=3, C=2, D=1, F=0 to the grades. Then you multiply it by the credit hours and add all these up. 3x3+3x4+3x3... etc. to get a number. You then divide this number by your credit hours. Therefore, with what you gave, you would do: 3x4+3x4+3x3+3x3+4x1+3x1=49. Then 49/14 which = 3.5 and that is your GPA. </p>
<p>Sometimes you get schools that do it where an 85 is a 3 and an 80 is a 2.5 and a 90 is a 3.5 and a 95+ is a 4. This is what my high school did, but I've only heard of very few colleges doing this.</p>
<p>My school's system is like the one AUlostchick described. GPA hours is I think what it calls the numbers, where you take the number equivilent of the grade you earned in the class and multiply that by the number of credits the class was. Most classes are 3 credits so it's just easiest to remember that A = 12, B = 9, C = 6, so on. </p>
<p>But they're changing it to a plus/minus system where A+ and A are 4.0, A- is 3.67, B+ = 3.33, B = 3.0, B- = 2.67, etc. Kind of sucks because theoretically you can get all A's and still have a gpa of less than 4.</p>
<p>whoa i thought our A- being a 3.7 is a rip off, but a 3.67? that really sucks</p>
<p>how is an A- being a 3.7 (or 3.67) a rip off? most schools which don't have the A- will consider that "to be" A- grade a b+...which would be either a 3.5 or a 3.3, but even then its worse than the 3.7</p>
<p>most school either have A, B, C or A, A-, and B+. so what was your point?</p>
<p>My college did the 4.0, 3.5, 3.0, 2.5, 2.0, 1.5, 1, .5, 0 grading scale...</p>
<p>so a 93 is a 3.5.</p>
<p>Have fun getting a 4.0 there. Nobody cares about your GPA anyway.</p>
<p>my point is whats the problem with an A- being a 3.7.</p>
<p>You do realize that it's 3.67 because they didn't want to write out 3.6666666667 and it gets rounded up to a 3.7 anyway because most people only use the 1 decimal place. The A-'s would be former A's in some classes, though.</p>
<p>its actually very difficult to get a solid A at most classes that include A- grading systems. Alot of time a 93 will still be an A-, which increases the difficulty of getting a pure A</p>
<p>i wouldn't know, i stick to B's</p>