So I’m trying to get a 4.0 GPA for my first semester of college but I’m having some trouble understanding if this is still possible for me. For 3/4 of my classes I get my grade out of 100% scale. I’m ranging between the 96 - 99 right now. So at the end of the semester I should get an A, which should translate to a 4.0 right? However, In one of my classes, he grades on the GPA scale and I’m constantly hovering in the 3.8 range. Would this mean, at the end of semester a 3.8 would be factored in or would be translated to an A and then would count as a 4.0?
This sounds like a wonderful question to ask your professor.
Ask your professor! My physics class is graded on a curve, so even if I get a 96, if everyone else also gets a 96 I still end up with a C. It all depends and the professor’s grading scale is only known by him/her
I don’t think this is a professor question, I think its a GPA question.
The answer is that each class gets assigned a GPA out of 4, and those out of 4 numbers are averaged.
The percentages are not averaged together.
Example:
100 -> 4.0
100 -> 4.0
100 -> 4.0
90 -> 3.7
GPA: 3.925
IT IS NOT: 100 + 100 + 100 + 90 = 97.5 = 4.0
This is the case at nearly all universities I know of, though checking would be good.
Normally, professors give out letter grades (or percent grades) and they correspond to numbers like 3.0 or 3.7. It looks like this professor is giving out numbers directly (including numbers like 3.8, which don’t directly correspond to letter grades). The OP is asking whether the university will turn the 3.8 into a letter grade or just calculate it into the GPA the way it is.
How would it show up on your transcript, OP?