do u get pts added for AP, IB, honors and gifted classes?
<p>We have a weighted system, but the scale is a bit wierd.</p>
<p>An A in a normal class is 6 points, B is 5 etc
In Honors, G/T and AP classes, an A is 7 points, a B is 6 etc</p>
<p>A in normal class is 4, B is 3, C is 2 etc...
A in AP/H is 5, B is 4, C is 3, D and F does not get extra grade point</p>
<p>whoa. we don't get anything for As in honors.</p>
<p>Regular Classes:
F| D | D+ | C | C+ | B | B+ | A | A+
0| 1 | 1.5 | 2 | 2.5 | 3 | 3.5 | 4 | 4.5</p>
<p>AP Classes:
F| D | D+ | C | C+ | B | B+ | A | A+
0| 2 | 2.5 | 3 | 3.5 | 4 | 4.5 | 5 | 5.5</p>
<p>Honors gets you nothing extra. Our grading scale is a bit different as well, it is as follows:
A+ 98-100
A 94-97
B+ 90 - 93
B 86 - 89
C+ 82 - 85
C 78 - 81
D+ 74 - 77
D 70 - 73
F <70</p>
<p>Ours isn't weighted at all, but we don't have AP classes either. We do have a dual credit program with a nearby college, where a few classes are taught in the high school but you get both high school and college credit, but it is still on hte regular grading scale and everything.</p>
<p>Ahh yes, I forgot about Dual Enrollment. Dual Enrollment credits work the same way as AP when it comes to HS GPA ..but since the local community college is on a 10 point scale, your college GPA can sometimes end up being higher. For instance.. if you had a 92 in a dual enrollment class you'd get a 3.5 on the HS Transcript but a 4.0 on the college transcript.</p>
<p>Honors -</p>
<p>Standard gpa with an additional +.25
4.25 = A
3.25 = B
etc</p>
<p>AP/IB/Dual Enrollment -</p>
<p>Standard gpa + 1.00
5.00 = A
4.00 = B
etc</p>
<p>My school has a very wonky GPA system. Certain subjects are worth a great deal more (credits are taken into account. Math is 8 credits whereas history is only 2) and there are three seperate GPA scales (one for Chinese, one for English, and one for all other subjects). </p>
<p>Highest GPA possible:
Chinese- 4.5 (need to be in IB A Chinese)
English- 4.5 (IB A English)
Other- 4.5 (IB) </p>
<p>Credits (for 11th and 12th grade): English- 8, Math- 8, Chinese- 6, Sciences- 3, History- 2 </p>
<p>It also may be noted that it is not possible to earn a cumalitive (or just a one time round) 4.5 as the school refuses to let students take all IB level courses (that and in 10th grade... the highest GPA possible is a -I believe- a 4.3) </p>
<p>I not sure if it's this way at other schools, but our GPAs are also only based on our midterm and final exams. Classwork, homework, and misc tests are worth virtually nothing unless the teacher decides to incorporate htem into our exam grades. eugh. =_=</p>
<p>In my school, they give extra points for AP classes, not honors. They calculate an extra 10% to the grade you got in the class. So if you were to get an 85 in APwhatever, it will be calculated into your average as a 93.5 (85+8.5).</p>
<p>94-100 A (4.0)
90-93 B+ (3.5)
84-89 B (3.0)</p>
<p>You get a .5 added on for AP's, while getting nothing for honors.</p>
<p>4.0 scale system, honors/AP courses are granted an extra point (5=A, 4=B, 3=C) if a grade of C or above was earned.</p>
<p>Our local high school does not weight grades.</p>
<p>i was just wondering how the colleges will know all of this. i know the transcript is suppose to explain, but i've seen mine, and it doesn't.</p>
<p>Avg= 4, HOnors= 4.5 AP = 5
95-100 A
89-94 B
82-88 C ( i think) and so on</p>
<p>Selective colleges will re-compute you GPA based upon their own weighting system....which, incidentally, excludes non-academic classes. So, your HS weighting system does not really mean much, except for determining (perhaps) your class rank.</p>
<p>Fairfax County Public School (VA)</p>
<p>A 94-100 (4.0)
B+ 90-93 (3.5)
B 84-89 (3.0)
C+(80-83)(2.5)
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.
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D (64-70)
F (63 or below)</p>
<p>I go to Annandale which is an IB school, so...</p>
<p>Honors/IGSCE/Pre-IB/MYP get nothing extra
AP/second year of two year SL IB classes/one year SL classes/both years of HL IB classes get extra .5</p>
<p>I think we have one of the stricted grading system in the nation. I hope colleges will take a note of it.</p>
<p>wow, my school has a really easy system in comparison to everyone else's.</p>
<p>It's complete grade inflation; the valedictorians (ever since switching to this system) have always had a final GPA of >5 on a 4.0 scale.</p>
<p>A, 4.0, 100-90
B, 3.0, 90-80
C, 2.0, 80-70
D, 1.0, 70-60
F.....</p>
<p>All Honors and AP classes receive a .03 cumulative add-on per semester (for grades C or higher).</p>
<p>If someone takes four H/AP classes every year for all four years, that's 8 semesters * 4 years * .03 per class = 0.96 add-on.<br>
This is added on to the base GPA, so if this person got A's in every class, their GPA at the end of high school would be 4.96</p>
<p>Usual top-ranking GPAs (at end of the school year)
frosh: 4.2, Soph: 4.4, Junior: 4.7, Senior: 5.1</p>
<p>Wow. At our school, an A-/A/A+ is 4 grade points, and there isn't really a standard. Some teachers give an A- at 88 or 89 percent in the class, and others not unless you have a 90.0 minimum. But there isn't a huge push to do better than an A- if you can make it there. The only "honors" we have is English 1-3, and AP classes get a grade boost. We get a "UC" GPA in which our school also recalculates our grades based on only academic classes. I always thought thats just the way things are, but maybe just in my area of California.</p>