In college what percentages determine A+, A, and A-?
<p>It depends on the school... some colleges don't even have letter grades. Some colleges don't have any grades (like Hampshire)!</p>
<p>Can you be specific on the school(s)?</p>
<p>Well I'm taking a course at a local communtiy college and I know that iI got a 97%. What would that be as a letter grade?</p>
<p>Might depend on the professor also. Some prof's think a 97 is an A, others say an A+</p>
<p>At Washu A+ does not exist in terms of benefitting your GPA its a 4.0</p>
<p>A+ = 4.0
A = 4.0
A- = 3.75
B+ = 3.25
B = 3.0
B- = 2.75
C+ = 2.25
C = 2.0
etc
etc</p>
<p>However each school is differnt. WashU does not inflate grades. Painful, but it is fair. </p>
<p>Also Classes are generally on a curve. PreMed courses are almost always on a curve. However ther are professors who refuse to curve.</p>
<p>Curve = What does this mean? it means using statistical techniques to create a bell shaped curve of score shifting the mean score to closely align with the mean grade. This means you can score 20% on a BIO test and still get an A+ is your peers all score below you. Sounds great doesn it! Not really, because if you score that low that means the test was pretty damn hard meaning its actually just a way for professors to make obscenly hard tests to make you feel stupid and then make it so they dont fail you all because they are required to pass a certain number of students. But it helps most of the time the curve</p>
<p>Welcome to college!</p>
<p>so A+=A?
that sucks</p>
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Curve = What does this mean? it means using statistical techniques to create a bell shaped curve of score shifting the mean score to closely align with the mean grade. This means you can score 20% on a BIO test and still get an A+ is your peers all score below you. Sounds great doesn it! Not really, because if you score that low that means the test was pretty damn hard meaning its actually just a way for professors to make obscenly hard tests to make you feel stupid and then make it so they dont fail you all because they are required to pass a certain number of students. But it helps most of the time the curve
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<p>Well, I don't know that you can say that the curve is really designed to help you. What the curve basically does is stipulate that only a certain number of people in the class will get A's. It's not like high school where everybody in the class could get an A and the only thing holding you back from getting an A was your own performance. In a curved class, whether you get an A or not is now only dependent on your performance, but also on the performance of everybody else in the class. Basically, it means that every student is in direct head-to-head competition with each other, because there are only a limited number of A's to go around, and everybody wants one. To get an A, you can't just do well, you have to do better than everybody else in the class who didn't get an A. Or, looked at another way, you actually want everybody else in the class to do badly, because that helps your grade. If you do badly, but everybody else does worse than you, then you get an A.</p>
<p>Hee.</p>
<p>At my school A+ = A = A- -- we don't use plus/minus modifiers. This is, of course, fabulous when you get a B-, but makes you want to break something when you get a B+...</p>