<p>My school does GPA’s on a 12-point scale, but it’s kind of messed up. A lot of people think you can just divide it by 3 and get your GPA on a 4.0 scale, but that doesn’t work. It goes like this:
A+ 12
A 11
A- 10
B+ 9</p>
<p>and so on and so forth. Since basically nobody gets A+'s or even straight A’s, usually the highest GPA is around a 10.5. Semester long courses count for one-half of a regular course. Oh yeah and this is a private high school in CT.</p>
<p>I can’t believe your schools weight so much…My school as .33 of a point for Honors or AP classes.</p>
<p>For quarters:</p>
<p>A = 4.0 = 89.5+ (I mean, basically 90+, but we round)
B = 3.0 = 79.5-89.4
C = 2.0 = 69.5-79.4
D = 1.0 = 59.5-69.4
E = 0.0 = lower than 59.4</p>
<p>AP and GT courses are weighted by 1.0 quality points assuming that the grade is an A, B, or C.
Honors courses are weighted by .5 quality points. </p>
<p>K, so that’s how quarters work, but our cumulative GPAs are based on a year-long grade for each course. Year-long is calculated like this, using each quarter grade on a 4.0 scale: </p>
<p>(first quarter + second quarter + 1/2 midterm + third quarter + fourth quarter + 1/2 final) / 5
Or you could look at it like… each quarter counts for 20% and the midterm and final for 10% each.</p>
<p>Anyways, once you get THAT number out of 4.0, 3.5+ rounds to a 4.0, 2.5+ to 3.0, 1.5+ to 2.0. </p>
<p>So, a 4.0 for a course for a year could be any of the following (ME = midterm exam, FE = final exam):
Q1-Q2-ME-Q3-Q4-FE
A / A / A / A / A / A
A / A / A / A / A / E
B / B / B / A / A / A
A / A / A / A / C / B
A / A / C / A / A / C</p>
<p>etc. So, even though our grades aren’t really inflated or anything, lots of people get 4.0s 'cause our system is so lax.</p>
<p>
I go to West Springfield. My Latin I teacher teaches at Fairfax now.</p>
<p>Honors: +.5
AP: + 1
No rounding! 92.9 = A- </p>
<p>A+: 97-100 - 4.3
A:93-96 - 4.0
A-:90-92 - 3.7
B+:88-89 - 3.3
B:85-87 - 3.0 </p>
<p>GPA is only calculated as weighted. No UW GPA is listed.</p>
<p>My school district (in TX, if anyone cares)</p>
<p><strong><em>AP / IB </em> Pre-AP / IH /Honors Regular
97 & above_5.0</strong><strong><em>4.5</em></strong><strong><em>4.0
93-96</em></strong><strong>4.8</strong><strong><em>4.3</em></strong><strong><em>3.8
90-92</em></strong><strong>4.6</strong><strong><em>4.1</em></strong>_<strong><em>3.6
87-89</em></strong><strong>4.4</strong><strong><em>3.9</em></strong>__________3.4 </p>
<p>o.o I’m actually really surprised with a lot of the stuff here- very interesting!</p>
<p>Top weighted GPA in core classes (4 years English, 4 years math, 4 years science, 3 years history, though our school requires less math and science for graduation.) </p>
<p>Regular/Honors or AP class:
A=4/5
B=3/4
C=2/3
D=1/1
F=0/0</p>
<p>“I go to West Springfield. My Latin I teacher teaches at Fairfax now.”</p>
<p>haha I don’t take Latin…but is this Latin teacher short?? I heard there was this one new Latin teacher who’s really short and old? maybe not</p>
<p>Our district weights it very simply. Regular classes and APs are weighted the same (we don’t have honors nor IBs D:).</p>
<p>All A’s - 4.0
All B’s - 3.0
All C’s - 2.0
All D’s - 1.0</p>
<p>Virginia Beach, VA</p>
<p>AP, IB, Dual Enrollement</p>
<p>A = 4 and +.0488 to overall GPA
B = 3 +.0366
C = 2 +.0244
D = 1 + .0122</p>
<p>Grade Scale</p>
<p>94 or higher= A
86-93= B
78-85= C
70-77= D
69 or lower= E</p>
<p>Nothin for Honors</p>
<p>Our school uses QPA rather than GPA. I don’t know if it provides an advantage or disadvantage. In any case, ive heard that (a huge amount of) scholarship money has been denied because student(s) did not have the required GPA that was calculated from their QPA. I’ve heard that at least some colleges will take the QPA and convert it to GPA like this:</p>
<p>For example, a student with a 94 QPA (out of 100) will have an unweighted GPA of 3.76. This is done by making 94 a fraction out of 100 [94/100] and then multiplying by 4. [0.94 * 4 = 3.76]</p>
<p>Now what worries me is that this person who has a QPA of 94 could have received A’s in all of their classes. This certainly would not correspond to a 3.76 GPA (please correct me if I’m wrong though)</p>
<p>Our guidance councilors have assured me that QPA will not compromise my admission chances, but I’m not sure if I believe them.</p>
<p>The school uses this grading policy, although ALL grades are reported numerically so its really just for the students/parents, not the colleges:</p>
<p>A 90-100
B 80-89
C 70-79
D 65-69
F 64 and below</p>
<p>Please let me know what you think about this grading system because its really worrying me. Thanks.</p>
<p>In Central NY our grades are weighted as follows:</p>
<p>Honors/AP x1.1
Regents x1.08
Non Regents Math x1.05
Electives x1.0</p>
<p>Class of '09 will be first class where rank is based on weighted average! I’m told that several recent valedictorians here “earned” the title by avoiding honors and ap classes!</p>
<p>Our GPAs are out of a 100, so that makes things easier. Actually, the whole weighting system is pretty simple (albeit a bit ■■■■■■■■).</p>
<p>We don’t have “honors” classes, but we do have accelerated classes which basically die out by the end of one’s high school career. These classes, despite its more challenging nature, receives no extra weight.</p>
<p>For me, I think it was if you had a 90+ average in an AP class, you’d get 1 point added to your overall HS GPA. If you got an 85, you’d get .8, etc., etc.</p>
<p>93-100 = 4.0
85-92 = 3.0
78-84 = 2.0
70-77 = 1.0
<70 = F</p>
<p>+.1 for every phase 4 class
+.2 for every phase 5 (honors) class</p>
<p>i really wish we had B+s and A-s cuz some of my grades are 92s and 91s etc =[</p>
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<p>yeah, I’m pretty sure that’s her lol. Small world…</p>
<p>My school doesn’t weight GPA, and we don’t have +/-s on our grades.</p>
<p>So it’s pretty basic:
A = 4
B = 3
C = 2
D = 1
F = 0</p>
<p>Instead of weighting GPA, though, we have Quality Points assigned to each of our classes, where honors and AP classes are worth more. It’s a really stupid, confusing system, IMO. But whatever works.</p>
<p>we go my whole points</p>
<p>ap/ib/dual enrollment start at 6 for an A and go from there (5-B, 4-C etc)
honors starts at 5-A
regular 4-A.</p>
<p>I’m another person suffering from Fairfax County’s nazi 94=A, 93=B+ policy.</p>
<p>^ I’m in ffx county too. The bad thing with our grading scale is that 93.5 is not always rounded to an A; it’s the teacher’s decision…</p>
<p>but really, aside from the fact that 94 and above is an A, I really like our grading system because it seems pretty flexible and simple</p>
<p>My school has a 1 to 6 grading scale, invented especially to be obnoxious. </p>
<p>Honors:
6 = 93-100
5 = 85 - 92</p>
<p>4 = 76 - 84
3 = 69 - 75
2 = 60 - 68
1 = 40 - 59
0 = 0 - 39</p>
<p>There’s no weight for AP classes, and Honor Roll is an average above or equal to a 5.0. Your GPA is just your average, but it can only be in increments of 0.5. You can’t have a 4.8 – it’s a 5.0, which is nice, but alternately: that 5.7 is not a 6.0, it’s a 5.5. </p>
<p>Trying to convert to a normal GPA at my school often leads to suicidal tendencies. It’s not pretty.</p>