<p>Yeah, I didn’t mean it as an insult to you, I just thought those percentages looked a bit ridiculous</p>
<p>Wind Ensemble - A (100)
AP Biology - A (96)
AP Microeconomics - A (99)
AP Psychology - A (97)
AP English Literature and Composition - A (95)
AP Statistics - A (96)
Honors Spanish (Literature) V - A (98)
Dual-Enrollment Mandarin I - A
Dual-Enrollment Russian I - A</p>
<p>So much grade inflation at my school. Except in English. That class is tough.</p>
<p>“How do so many of you have A’s in all your AP classes?”</p>
<p>For me, it’s a combination of these:</p>
<p>a) I’m smart.
b) Grading on a curve.
c) Grade inflation.
d) We move slowly.
e) Good teachers.
f) Interest in the subject.</p>
<p>^Agreed! :P</p>
<p>All A’s in everything, but we still have to take 2 finals when we get back from break so… we’ll see. ^_^</p>
<p>@Syoung2
I’m not insulted at all! Haha. They are super ridiculous but I do like the fact that our school doesn’t let my extra credit transfer to other classes (as weird as that may sound). The German teacher at my school used a whole test as extra credit, so people in his class have 300%+. So it’s pretty good that those people can’t just have a 4.3 GPA just because of one class. However, it’s not typical for our teachers to give extra credit, so I just got lucky with having teachers that do…my chemistry teacher for next semester doesn’t give extra credit, so I’m definitely not expecting an A+ in there anymore!</p>
<p>How can people get 110%+ on one damn subject or 100%+ on all of them? I know there are extra credit activities, but some percentages here are sort of crazy, sort of like how a kid had a wGPA of 9.3/4.0 last year in Florida. I mean 300%+? It’s no wonder why colleges are moving more towards LoRs than grades…</p>
<p>^
But my letter of recommendation for a mentorship literally said that I was the most intelligent student the teacher had ever had. Not “one of” the most. I had to wonder if she says that in all her recs.</p>
<p>@Ach7DD
I can see how my medical terminology grade was so high in that we had very few homework assignments and that on the tests some questions allowed for multiple answers, therefore extra credit if you know all the answers (I think you should just HAVE to know the answers however) I think some of that grading should have been on my teacher to decide that those questions were mandatory to know all the answers and not allow for extra credit if she knew that we wouldn’t have many assignments.</p>
<p>At the 300%+, it was the teacher’s choice to make a whole test extra credit in the class and some kids got 80+ extra credit points (I’m not in the class, so I wouldn’t know everything), but my school doesn’t allow for any GPA above 4.33. So no matter how high the percent your grade is, whether an 100% or 400%, that A+ still counts as a 4.33. Also (as I mentioned before), they don’t allow for the extra credit to transfer between subjects (e.g. - those 80 extra credit points in German transferring to Calculus, English, etc.), which also allows for a more correct GPA. My friend who is taking German has around a 200% in there but a lower GPA, because she doesn’t have as high of grades in other classes. I realize that not all schools do this, but my school does realize that grade inflation does take place and tries to not make it affect GPA’s as much as it should in any negative way. </p>
<p>Haha that’s my rant for the day. :)</p>
<p>^For mine, it doesn’t matter the percent. A 89.5 is the same A as a 150. They’re both considered a 4.0. (Or 4.5 in honors or 6.0 in AP)</p>
<p>IB Math HL -A
AP Calc BC- A
AP Lit- A
AP Physics C- B
AP Macroecon- A</p>
<p>@npswimmer44</p>
<p>Apologies if I sounded rude, but I understand what you mean, it’s just that my old school never gave extra credit, and my new one gives sparingly. Though your German teacher sounds like one of my Middle School’s science teacher (He allowed repeated use of extra credit projects, a kid caught on this and used it to make his grade rise to four-digit numbers, no kidding.) It still may pose a problem if the kid with a 300~400 transfers on to another school where GPA is calculated by exact grade, which means that his 300~400 may end up inflating his GPA at another school. Which still puzzles me why different schools never adjust grades for inflation/deflation.</p>
<p>Though, your medical terminology teacher reminds me of my US History teacher, the homework was always for EC, so my average grade on her tests was a 104~105.</p>
<p>Sophomore:</p>
<p>African American History (Advanced) - A (94)
Chemistry (Advanced) - A (90)
Algebra II (Advanced) - B (84)
English II (Advanced) - A (91)
Spanish II - A (95)
Genetics - A (96)</p>
<p>My Algebra II class isn’t even difficult! Just made really crappy mistakes on most of my tests. Oh well.</p>
<p>Sophomore
First Quarter Grades:
AP Euro B- (82) 
AP Bio A- (91)
Gym A+ (100)
Honors English A (94)
Latin 3 A (96)
Honors Chem A- (92)
CAD A (96)
Advanced Precalc A- (91)</p>
<p>gotta work on that ap euro grade…</p>
<p>@Ach7DD
You didn’t sound rude at all! Haha. I don’t necessarily agree with extra credit - as in the case of your school, I think it should be used sparingly. Last year, my geometry teacher had one extra credit problem per quarter and it was worth about 5 points, when we had around 100-150 points in the grade book. I think, personally that is the best way to use extra credit rather than overload and give out a million jillion extra points.</p>
<p>Sophomore</p>
<p>AP Bio - A (94)
AP Euro - A (101) yay for extra credit 
Honors Spanish 2 - A (?) we don’t get percentages in that class…weird.
Honors English 10 - A (95)
Math Analysis (trig/pre-calc) - A (99)
Gym - A (?) its gym for crying out loud…</p>
<p>I have about 2 weeks to bring up 2 C’s wish me luck!</p>