<p>What does the number to the right of your received letter grades mean? It looks like it's (class's # of units x 4)...? What is this showing me?</p>
<p>grade points</p>
<p>It will be the grade you earned, converted to the numerical scale (0-4 for F-A, with .3 added for a + and subtracted for a -, but A+ is still only 4.0), then multiplied by the number of units the class is worth. </p>
<p>For example, earning an A- in a 4 unit class would produce the value 14.8. They are ‘grade points’. These points are summed up and then divided by the number of units of graded classes to generate your semester GPA. </p>
<p>For more on this, see [Calculating</a> the GPA - Office Of The Registrar](<a href=“http://registrar.berkeley.edu/current_students/academic_records_transcripts/grades_gpa.html]Calculating”>http://registrar.berkeley.edu/current_students/academic_records_transcripts/grades_gpa.html)</p>
<p>Ah! So an A in a 5 unit class is “worth” more than an A in a 2 unit class?</p>
<p>yes - your grades are weighted so that good grades in high unit classes have more impact that good grades in low unit classes. </p>
<p>Imagine two people who each earned an A and a C. One of them earned those in a pair of 3 unit classes. Their grade points are 12+6 or 18 for a GPA of 3.0 The other earned the high grade in a 2 unit class and the low grade in a 4 unit class. The grade points are 8+8 or 16 for a GPA of 2.67</p>
<p>Dunno if its been asked before, but why would they subtract .3 units for a (-) grade? Why not just give fewer points.</p>
<p>If I’m thinking about this correctly, its seems like a B+ would be better than an A-.</p>
<p>They don’t subtract 0.3 from the units… they subtract it from the points. So, Person A has a B for a 4 unit class, he gets 3.0 x 4. Person B got a B-. He gets 2.7 x 4.</p>
<p>How did I not know this? Makes sense. Thanks guys!</p>