<p>My son's high school gives physics 6 credits for a year while all other core courses only get 5 each. Is this for all high schools? If physics get more credit, should it mean that doing well in physics helps in your weighted GPA?</p>
<p>will</p>
<p>In my school, all "labs" - which are classes that run halfway through lunch every four days - get 6 credits, and (nearly) every other class gets 5. Our school currently uses class rank points - and the procedure of calculation causes 6 credits to help the weighted GPA. Thus, since I am taking 5 "labs" - Theory of Knowledge, Calc BC, AP Environmental Science, Physics, and AP/IB Chem - my weighted GPA is going to be much higher than others who are only taking 1 or 2 labs (as is the "norm" in our school). </p>
<p>However, my high school will change the class rank/GPA system soon, and labs will not help - at all. I suppose that the school is trying to stop people (... like myself) from becoming valedictorian simply from loading up on labs and concentrating on sciences.</p>
<p>Wow.</p>
<p>In my school, every class that meets full period every day throughout 9 weeks are considered as .5 credit (we're on block schedule, 1-year cource can be done in 18 weeks), no matter how difficult or easy the class is.</p>
<p>here we have lab one day a week (taken out of gym) for honors/regular science courses - 6 credit courses
However, AP sciences=two lab days a week (meet for 7 total periods a week that means we are in there for almost 2 hours two days a week haha). 7 credit courses
most other classes meet 5 days a week - 5 credit courses.</p>