<p>@ aigiqinf: How did you get 100 (or 99)? You have to:
Turn in all homework, and if they’re graded, you have to get full credit on all of them.
Get 100 on all quizzes and tests without making any mistakes.
Do whatever else your teacher gives you and get 100 on them.</p>
<p>Did you do all that? I find that extremely difficult to accomplish. For example, Pre-Calc was a complete breeze for me, but I keep making mistakes on tests so I ended up with like 97%, which is the only grade I got over 95%.</p>
<p>Now I’m worried that my A-, even though they’re 4.0s, will make my transcript look bad. My Junior year I got 4 A and 3 A- both semesters.</p>
<p>My school puts +s and -s on your mid-semester progress reports (except you can’t get an A±-it’s like B-, B, B+, A-, A), but your final semester grades don’t have +s or -s. Which is actually nice and relieves a lot of pressure. So as long as you get the 90–or, like, 89.5 if the teacher rounds–you get an A, which will count for 4.0.</p>
<p>Makes me happy that my school is:
A=4.0
B=3.0
C=2.0
D=1.0
F=0.0</p>
<p>All on a 10 point grading scale (so A=100-90, B=89-80, etc.)</p>
<p>Although in our classes it’s not hard to get a 98+, but it doesn’t really matter so most people don’t care. As long as they have an A they are happy.</p>
<p>It is extremely difficult to accomplish, as it should be. And I certainly have had my share of low grades due to some other issues. I do want to point out though that you should only need a 99.5% for a 100% and a 98.5% for a 99%. I don’t see any reasonable argument against rounding. I made a 105% in a college class because a ton of people failed and my teacher wanted to apply a curve to bring them up, I made a 99% in Honors Pre-cal because and Honors English III that was my average on all assignments, and a got a 100% in Honors Earth/Environmental Science because I missed barely any points.</p>
<p>Perhaps you might want to look more closely at what I said:</p>