<p>my school, like many others, offer a Pass/Fail option for elective classes, except they won't do it for gym and health credits that's required for graduation. So I wonder if any other school have that exception because I always thought pass/fail is designed so that failing gym or health classes won't ruin a person's gpa (though that is a rather impossible task in most cases).</p>
<p>Also if I do have a gym for pass/fail (but not for credit at my hs) would it count for credit at another high school?</p>
<p>How does gym and health ruin a person's GPA? In my school anyone gets an A in gym and health class is a joke where you do other class homework. My school gets letter grades for both. In almost all cases, it boosts a student's GPA.</p>
<p>For your second question, the credit policy would depend on school by school. Even if your school does not give credit for gym, my school might as you need 20 gym "credit" to graduate.</p>
<p>Hmm, I've never heard of high school classes with Pass/Fail before. But I do know that a gym class (or any non-weighted elective) can lower, but not necessarily ruin, one's GPA if their courseload is saturated with all AP and honors classes.</p>
<p>As far as your initial question, we're given letter grades for gym/health classes, but mostly everyone gets As and grade decreases are only a result of behavior issues. I took Health online, but I do know at school that they work out of a textbook. Both are easy As to everyone.</p>
<p>Our school gives regular grades for health and gym classes. You have to do homework and stuff for those classes. (I did dance, so we were graded on our dancing and we had to do some dance history stuff)</p>
<p>We get grades in gym and health, but the gym grades aren't calculated into our GPA (though health is). It's a good thing for everyone relying on their weighted GPAs especially because we're required to take 3.5 years of it (every semester except for the one that we take health), and it's a regular-level class.</p>
<p>^^^i don't think people should worry about health/gym "ruining" their GPAs, as many colleges just recalculate GPAs and don't count those kinds of classes.</p>
<p>^^ it can ruin your gpa with regard to class rank. my school does unweighted rank; despite getting all As in a drastically more rigorous courseload than the 2 people ranked ahead of me, I'm currently only third in my class because I got one A- in the first semester of freshman gym. :(</p>
<p>In my school you have to be mentally retarded to fail GYM because you start out with a 60% bonus that cannot go down in the class so all you need to do is get 10% more points in the semester to pass. </p>
<p>But counting gym for class rank/gPA? You school sucks - only a moron would try to count gym equal to calculus.</p>
<p>Yeah, gym completely thrashes my GPA every semester--even when I got a 95, it's completely unweighted and brought down my gpa a whole point D: (out of 100 I mean, haha.)</p>
<p>you all LIED, maybe not intentionally but ya I did more in gym this quarter than all my previous years of gym combined and is getting (and gonna get) a B- as a comp class (bye bye straight A?)</p>
<p>I guess I forgot to say this gym teacher like to give out D's and C's on a random basis</p>
<p>My school counts gym in the GPA, but I'm only a freshman and don't have all kinds of weighted courses yet... but if a 95 kills your GPA, then you really can't be doing much better anyway, so why get yourself all worried about it?</p>
<p>At my school, health is a normal grade that is calculated into our GPA, but gym is pass/fail. We have a weird system, though, where you can get a P or a P+ to pass--P is obviously passing, and I guess P+ is better than passing? I've never understood the need to add a + to pass/fail grade that doesn't matter anyway. It's ridiculous, makes no sense, and there's really no rhyme or reason to why someone gets a P and someone else gets a P+.</p>
<p>Come on future nerds of America we have to get our bodies in as good shape as our minds. In our school we have to run the mile ever week and i think if you get it under 7 minutes you get an A.</p>
<p>I just got my mid term reports and we didn't have anything listed for Gym or Heath because my teach apparently broke her jaw and couldn't pass in the grades.</p>
<p>So, I'm not really sure how it is at my school but I think gym is pass/fail but health is a letter grade. I decided that if I don't get an A in gym and Heath, then I quit school. (and I like school!)</p>
<p>In order to fail gym you have to forget your gym clothes 3 times in a term. I have forgotten my clothes 4 times, but I talked to my teacher and only 2 have been recorded ;). guess I'll be passing... as long I remember to bring them for the rest of the term.</p>
<p>The only way to fail Health is to... I'm not really sure how you can get lower than an A in health, yet I can think of a few people who aren't getting As :P</p>
<p>I get it a mile under 8min and we run twice a week. I also used to run 2miles several times a week before it got cold (not a marathon but I dont sit around getting fat all day:)) it's just the sports stuff that kills me---I'm so short! so no one ever pass anything to me and it just look like I'm not participating :(</p>
<p>to answer someone else's question I actually get A+'s (majority) and the rest A's. I have 5AP/Accelerated classes, 1 honors (french), and the comp class gym in which I have a B. I missed valedictorian rank last year b/c of a A- in a comp class and now I'm gonna be content with going from rank 1 (at the end of last semester) to 10? not really</p>
<p>sry for the rant but gym?!?!! it was the last class I thought I would have trouble in</p>