<p>Here each prof makes up their own scale for +/- s. At my high school there were standard +& - s for D, C and Bs, but everything from a 90.0 and up was an A. (89.5 if you round i guess). It is very weird suddenly going to an A- system, and having a 93 or a 94 really make a difference between a 4.0 and a 3.7... I like it better without the + and - on the A, but I do like having + and - on Bs.
It is also weird getting an A- in one class for a 94, when a 93 in another class would have gotten me an A (if I hadn't gotten a B+ haha). We also don't have C- here. Anything below a C is a fail. (72.. 73 percent.. i forget)</p>
<p>it depends on how the professor grades. it's up to them whether a 95%+ is an A or A+ or if an 88 = B+....i just don't like it because</p>
<p>a) it's inconsistent
b) it's not fair to students right now who are getting A+'s but they won't show up
c) ppl will start choosing classes based on teachers and not the course.
d) not ALL CCC's use this.</p>
<p>bottom line. If you get more A-'s than B+'s then it'll hurt you. If you get more B+'s than A-'s than it'll help you.</p>
<p>i am so happy my community college doesnt do this. </p>
<p>i think it sucks, ... i would like to see one person that actually gets a 98-100 in a class</p>
<p>welcome to college. ALL the UC's use +/- grading, i don't see why CC's must be any different.</p>
<p>well i'm saying i would be fine with it if it was consistent with all the other ccc's. i mean honestly..if a person had the choice of using +/- as opposed to 4.0, 3.0, etc. and the two schools were within 10 miles of each other, which school would you go to? Hypothetically, if a kid got all A-'s at a CCC, at one he would have a 4.0 while the other would have a 3.7. sounds like a pretty big jump to me.</p>
<p>But think about it . If you have a 4.0 in those community colleges that use those systems ... you seem to be more stand out than others colleges that don't ...</p>
<p>true but don't you think ppl who get C-'s kinda get screwed? I mean the main point of CCC's are to get ppl outta there right?</p>
<p>But on the grading scale there's no C- </p>
<p>77 - 79% = C+
70 - 76 = C</p>
<p>So you don't really have to worry about it. So if you want to prove to the admission that you can get a 4.0, go to those colleges</p>
<p>^-^</p>
<p>I don't know about other schools, but at Berkeley, an A+ is given "only at the instructor's discretion." So, you could have a 100% in the class and still not get an A+. I guess they really want you to work for them there.</p>
<p>Mrmuirc, are those A+ reflected in the calculation of the GPA? Like for example one of my classes the top 3% get an A+ but it is given the same score value as an A (i.e. 4.0) when calculating the GPA.</p>
<p>yeah it's not like the A+ is weighted as 4.3 or anything. i'm not sure if a 70%-76% can be considered a C? maybe it'll be cut off at 73 and anything below that is a D+...who knows. oh well, hope all is well! good luck on finals if you have em this week ppl.</p>
<p>y17k, from what I understand, GPAs have a ceiling of 4.0. I guess they're just there to look good on transcripts.</p>
<p>you think that getting an A- and a 3.7 is harsh? try 1) getting an AB and 3.5 for the same percentage that you would normally get an A- AND 2) getting a B instead of a B+ because they don't exist. i think that +/- could even help. as far as removing them - i don't even know schools that grade without intermediate grades. do they even exist?</p>
<p>I believe Purdue simply hands out A/B/C/and so on. Or so I've been told by a friend who goes there.</p>
<p>I'd love if my school went by that. All of ours are reported on the 4.0 scale. I think most are similar to the below scale:</p>
<p>85 3
86 3.1
87 3.2
88 3.3
89 3.4
90 3.5
91 3.5
92 3.6
93 3.7
94 3.8
95 3.9
96 3.9
97+ 4.0</p>
<p>It makes it pretty hard to get a 4.0 in all the classes :(</p>
<p>That's The System You Use For Grading!? That Is Terrible!!!</p>
<p>No curve? In some of my classes that have sin the 50s, you can get an A with 80%... as long as you are in the top 10-12% of the class...</p>
<p>No curve for most classes (from the grading scale in post 36). Sometimes the really nice teachers will give a couple points of extra credit though;)</p>
<p>It's kinda stressful when you're on the borderline. Last quarter I managed to get a 4.0, but I had to work REALLY hard to earn it. I had over 99% in all of my classes and was still worried that one little mistake was going to mess it up.</p>
<p>Wow no curve for classes suck...
Isn't it grossly unfair though?
E.g. For midterm grades at my school
Class average for Econ = 87% (92+ = A)
Class average for Calc II = ~60% (80+ = A)</p>
<p>Dude how did you have over 99% in all your classes!?!?!?! Are you in a community College?</p>