<p>Since my school has a weird/convoluted way of calculating GPA, I was wondering how your school calculates students' GPA.</p>
<p>My School does the following:
A+:10
A:9
A-:8
B+:7
B: 6
B-:5
C+:4
C:3
C-:2
D:1
F:0</p>
<p>Then on our transcripts, they report a number out of 10 (i.e. 9.4) and then curve it (I still don't know how) to give a % out of 100.</p>
<p>With that said, how does YOUR school calculate your GPA?</p>
<p>4.0: A
3.0: B
2.0: C
1.0: D
0.0: F</p>
<p>AP classes are “weighted” in the sense that:</p>
<p>5.0: A
4.0: B
and so on. Honor classes aren’t weighted or anything.</p>
<p>Then we have unweighted GPAs out of 4.0 and weighted GPAs out of whatever else.</p>
<p>Quite simple:
A: 4
B: 3
C: 2
D: 1
F: 0
Regular: no additional points
Honors/PreAP: +0.5(A=4.5)
AP/Dual/AICE/IB: +1(A=5)</p>
<p>Each grade in each course you take corresponds to a GPA point, and to find your GPA, you average all your GPA points.</p>
<p>A = 4.0
B = 3.0
C = 2.0
D = 1.0
F = 0.0
Note that it doesn’t matter if it’s an A+ (100) or an A- (89.5), it’s still worth a 4.0. </p>
<p>For AP classes, add +1.0 for your weighted GPA. Neither honors nor dual-enrollment courses are weighted. </p>
<p>The system helps in some ways, but not in others. For example, the difference between a 3.0 and a 4.0 can be as little as between an 89.4 and an 89.5, which can be pretty ridiculous and it’s annoying that the difference of a whole point sits on one arbitrary value.</p>
<p>An A is a 4.0, and anything lower is -1/3 from 4 (ex. B+ is 3.33).</p>
<p>Then the computer takes the grade point for that class and multiplies it by the credit hours of the class, which is determined by how many times a week a class meets. So my history class, which met three times a week, was 1 credit, Spanish met four times and was 1.25 credits, and five times was 1.5. So the more credits the class was worth the more it influenced your GPA.</p>
<p>Our schools have more specific scale…there is an equivalent for 99, 98, etc average in a class. Higher weights for AP, honors, reg. college prep. A 100 ave. in AP class is 5.something (can’t remember specifics now).</p>
<p>We have the regular unweighted 4.0 scale. For weighted though:
AP/IB:
A=6
B=4.5
C=3
D=1.5
F=0</p>
<p>Pre-IB/AP/Honors
A: 4.5
B: 3.325
C: 2.25
D: 1.125
F: 0</p>
<p>For Unweighted, A=4, B=3, C=2, D=1, and F=0
For Weighted, there are three scales, AP/Honors, Academic, and Level 3 and 4 classes (essentially very basic to remedial classes).
AP/Honors: A=6, B=5, C=4, D=3, F=0
Academic: A=5, B=4, C=3, D=2, F=0
Level 3 and 4: See Unweighted</p>
<p>To actually calculate it, they multiply your grade by the number of credits the class is worth, add all of these up, and divide by your total number of credits. This results in lab sciences being worth more GPA-wise than other classes.</p>
<p>A+. 4
A. 3.88
A- 3.64
B+. 3</p>
<p>And so on</p>
<p>Unweighted: A (4), B (3), C (2), D (1), F (0)
Weighted (Honors+AP): A (5), B (4), C (3), D (1), F (0)
Max GPA with all Honors/APs: 5.0</p>
<p>It’s out of 100. Each marking period and our final exam grade are averaged to get our final grade for the class. IB/AP grades are weighted 1.075. Courses that are every other day, or half a year (like gym and music) and 0.5 credits, so they don’t count as much towards your GPA. Your GPA only weights to a 100, but the actual weighted grade is used to decide valedictorian.</p>
<p>We’re on a scale of 100. Pre AP and honors get +5 points; AP gets +8.</p>
<p>A=4
B=3
C=2
D=1
F=0</p>
<p>Ap=add one more point</p>
<p>My district has scores on the 100 scale, with all final grades rounded to the nearest whole number. All final grades are just averaged. AP, Dual Enrollment, and college-level independent study get x1.1 multipliers, Pre-AP courses and AP courses in which a student did not take the AP exam get x1.05 multipliers, and all other courses are just x1.</p>
<p>A+:4
a:4
a-:3.667
b+:3.330
b: 3
b-:2.667
c+:2.333
c:2
c-:1.667
d+:1.333
d:1
d-:.667
f:0</p>
<p>I think our system is pretty simple comparatively…or our admins are just…idk, lazy? It’s computer generated :P</p>
<p>4.0: 89.50-infinity (basically, any form of A-, A, A+)
3.0: 79.50-89.49 (any form of B-, B, B+, etc)
2.0: 69.50-79.49
1.0: 59.50-69.49</p>
<p>No extra weights or points or anything.</p>