Grading Scale
90-100 - A - 4.0
80-89 - B - 3.0
70-79 - C - 2.0
60-69 - D - 1.0
00-59 - F - 0.0
Nowhere on my transcript does it have “plusses” or “minuses.” I think my GPA may be artificially inflated because of it, but I don’t know how colleges could even try to figure out what it would be on a different scale.
<p>my school grades like that too, although plusses and minuses still appear on the transcript, with no affect on the GPA. i don't think colleges care about plusses or minuses.</p>
<p>My grading scale is exactly like yours.</p>
<p>same here. however, we do have +'s and -'s but it has no effect on our gpas.</p>
<p>My sons school marks this way:</p>
<p>93 - 100 = A - 4.0
84 - 92 = B - 3.0
77 - 83 = C - 2.0
70 - 76 = D - 1.0
69 and under = Fail</p>
<p>My school has the same policy as harpingchic's.</p>
<p>my school is the same way we also have honors courses and AP courses count for the same weight. i guess thats why there were 14 valedictorians last year.</p>
<p>that's how most colleges recalculate GPA.</p>
<p>yeah, my school too, with the plusses and minuses. those pts are directly to calc gpa, usually. in my CA school, UC-certified honors and APs get one pt extra, so its like 90-100=5, 80-89=4 etc.</p>
<p>mine has pluses and minuses but they don't matter so my GPA is calculated exactly like yours</p>
<p>My school grades like this:</p>
<p>A = 86-100
B = 73-85
C+ = 66-72
C = 61-65
C - = 56-60
D = 50-55
F = 0-49</p>
<p>This is the standard Canadian system, I think. Obviously, looking at your guys' schools, the grading system is quite surprising to me. I have to ask, are A's very hard to get? How about the honour roll? At my school, being on first class honour (A average) is no big deal for relatively smart kids. The big thing is the President Honour's Society (90% or above), which usually represents the top 10% in the grade. I'm wondering if your guys' first class honours is like our PHS, or if it's all relative and 90+% are easier to achieve at your school since that's the "A" mark.</p>
<p>Most SC schools use something called SC Uniform Grading Scale which is absolutely ridiculous: <a href="http://www.myscschools.com/tracks/educators/unigrad2.htm%5B/url%5D">http://www.myscschools.com/tracks/educators/unigrad2.htm</a></p>
<p>100 in an AP Class is 5.87...so random.</p>
<p>Our grades are reported numerically but for letter grades go
A=93-100
B=85-92
C=77-84
D=70-76
F=0-70</p>
<p>Whoa, some of these scales... I'd be a B student and about half my grade would be failing D students if that scale came into use. Just because A's are 93% and above, does that mean that there are like only 3 kids in the grade who get straight A's, or is it put into perspective, so that high nineties percentages are easier to get than in schools like mine? Because if it's not, then that's absolutely crazy.</p>
<p>We've got the :
90-100 - A - 4.0
80-89 - B - 3.0
70-79 - C - 2.0
60-69 - D - 1.0
00-59 - F - 0.0
type system but an AP class is out of 5 (A=5, B=4, C=3...) and honors classes are out of 4.5 (A=4.5, B=3.5, C=2.5...) So depending on what classes you take, you have a unique highest GPA... its not like everyone is striving for a 5.0 or a 4.0 because with the classes they take that year, the highest they are able to get is a 4.66, a 4.23, a 4.7, etc.</p>
<p>Is this how most of your schools do it?</p>
<p>Why Was I Not Born In Canada!!!!!!!!!!??????????????????????????</p>
<p>my school has no pluses or minuses either. they show up on quarter grades (which don't count) but the transcript doesn't have any. so a 89.5% looks the same as a 100% in the class.</p>
<p>lots of schools calculate gpa like that.</p>
<p>i've been told that the reason canadian systems put 86%+ as A is because canadian high school courses are harder than the american ones. that's why the averages from applicant pools of both countries come out quite similarly in the end.</p>
<p>MY high school:</p>
<p>100-90: A
89-80: B
79-70: C
69-0: F</p>
<p>We don't have D's, but I am an A student so it doesn't affect me.</p>
<p>90-100 - A - 4.0
80-89 - B
70-79 - C
00 - 69 F</p>
<p>yeah mine doesnt have D's either.</p>