<p>I will be going to MSU for graduate school soon and I learned that they use a numerical grading system only with no letters. I am just wondering if anyone knows how this compares to the typical letter grading scale. Does this type of scale make it more difficult to get higher grades since it could be up to a teacher to decide the scale? In my previous college we could get up to A+s which equal 4.3 points...the system was in increments of .3 but here it only goes up to 4.0, it goes by increments of .5 which kind of concerns me. Is a 3.5 an A or B? and there are no +/-. It is less flexible it seems.</p>
<p>At MSU there is no A+ or any grade above 4.0.
Approx Grading scale:
4.0 = A
3.5= A-/B+<br>
3.0= B-
2.5= C/C+
2.0= C-</p>
<p>The percentages of a 4.0, 3.5 etc. are really up to the teacher. sometimes 95% = 4.0, sometimes 90% = 4.0, and other times 80 or 85% = 4.0.</p>
<p>thanks for the response</p>
<p>I’ve seen teachers on some syllabus show that less than an 82% is a 2.5 so that kind of worries me. It just sucks that they go by .5 and not by .333. And to graduate from graduate school you need at least a 3.0. So I don’t like how it makes it up to the teacher. In my undergrad school, you always knew what score you needed to get whatever grade and it was the same for all classes.</p>
<p>I guess Michigan State has higher standards heh. Should have checked earlier…</p>
<p>I don’t think I’ve ever seen a graduate class with an average lower than ~3.4 so I don’t think our students have too big of an issue getting a 3.0+ higher GPA in grad school.</p>