<p>OK so we just finished finals today and I went on grades and it says I finished with a 79.56 in a class and now I'm extremely ****ed. Relate?</p>
<p>That doesn’t round up?</p>
<p>Sorry I meant a 79.69 and I don’t think my teacher will do that</p>
<p>Oh, well it’s standard.practice here to round up (or well down).</p>
<p>Will it change your letter grade?</p>
<p>A B isn’t 79.5% and up. It’s 80% and up. 80.01% is just as much higher than the minimum for a B as 79.99% is lower than the minimum for a B.</p>
<p>Rounding up is grace from the teacher.</p>
<p>My school rounds up.
It’s basic math, I thought…</p>
<p>Math. Hmm.</p>
<p>Is 79.9% not less than 80%?</p>
<p>Well you don’t put a 79.9 on a transcript…
So we round up or down to the nearest whole #</p>
<p>I side with Halogen on this case. If you get below an A, you get below an A. You shouldn’t round it up because it’s less than an A.</p>
<p>Generally most teachers (especially if you’ve worked hard in the class) will round it up/at least give you a chance to do an “easy” assignment to boost your grade so it will go up. Though not all do, and it’s certainly not something teachers HAVE to do.</p>
<p>I could care less about what he “earned” or “deserved”
He earned and deserves a 79.9, and since we can’t say 79.9, we say 80</p>
<p>Same if he earned a 79.49…since we can’t earn a 79.49, it’s a 79.</p>
<p>Just my personal belief.
.4 or less, deflate
.5 or more raise</p>
<p>Lucky, for my school, on a 7 points scale, that’s a solid C even with rounding.</p>
<p>Halogen, I find it hard to believe you didn’t know what I meant. Scratch that… Impossible. </p>
<p>My school doesn’t put decimals on the transcript or report card (wait, seeing as Halogen’s being pedantic, I suppose I should specify that there IS a decimal in the GPA), so in accordance with… Well, math, they round up what they should round up and round down what they should round down.</p>
<p>If you round to the nearest whole number, then you define a B and up as 79.5% and up in the teacher’s system, which is 80% and up on the transcript.</p>
<p>If you round down, then you define a B and up as 80% and up in the teacher’s system, which is 80% and up on the transcript.</p>
<p>It is indeed pedantic whether you define 79.5% or 80% as the minimum for a B. I know some students are given an A for 94% and up instead of 90% and up. The decile system is not universal. But if a teacher claims to grade on the decile system, grading inconsistently with that is either unfair or gracious.</p>
<p>Well my school system defines a B as 79.5-89.49</p>
<p>I agree with you that a teacher must follow the system that the school outlines for you. I was just unaware what his school system’s practice was when it came to rounding. And as a teacher, I’d prefer the rounding method.</p>