<p>On the grade point scale 0 is a failure and 4 is perfect.</p>
<p>No one is perfect.</p>
<p>How do people get 4.0's?</p>
<p>Apparently their instructors think they’re work is perfect.</p>
<p>Impossible. Especially in classes such as English which are HIGHLY subjective.</p>
<p>^ Good point. I’ve never been able to get an A in English for some reason.</p>
<p>I got A’s in English all the time simply because it was the class I am best at. However, when I got a teacher that didn’t agree with all my opinions or didn’t like my style of writing troubles did arise.</p>
<p>I don’t think 4.0 kids exist. I think they are product of grade inflation and sucking up to teachers. No one is, or should, be able to do perfectly (I’m not even saying do well, that’s possible, but not perfectly) in all his/her classes.</p>
<p>Easy. You go to a rural high school where they dumb down the curriculum. In English this year, my class has watched six full-length movies. Yes, six. Each one takes about three and a half class periods. We’ve now read two books, both of them Shakespeare plays. We also read abbreviated versions of the Iliad and Oedipus the King, and a few short (one or two-page) works. That’s it for the entire year so far. There have been maybe four tests and three papers.</p>
<p>In calculus, we can use both our notes and our textbooks on quizzes and tests. In chemistry, the teacher covers about half of the material on the SAT Subject Test. In physics, it’s about one-fourth of the material on the SAT.</p>
<p>So it’s really easy to get a 4.0 at a rural high school.</p>
<p>you don’t need to be perfect to get an A, seriously.</p>
<p>Yeah but isn’t a 4.0 = 100/100?</p>
<p>That is not possible in every class. =)</p>
<p>mcvcm92- Actually, it depends on the school. At my school, 4.0=A=93%-100%.</p>
<p>Wow. A 93% at my old high school was a B+.</p>
<p>Generally a 4.0 is a 95.</p>
<p>And people get them because High School is a joke. I don’t care how competitive you think your school is, just think about how much of your day is devoted to busy work and pointless lectures and the teaching of egregiously simplistic concepts. </p>
<p>This is how my Thursdays play out (Thursday because that’s tomorrow):
8:15-10:00 - Daydream in AP Statistics because the teacher learned stats from “Stats for Dummies”. This is NOT rhetoric. She told us this on the first day of class.
10:05-10:50 - Talk to my friend who sits next to me all of class about where we’re gonna go to get smashed Friday in AP Spanish because we’ve learned the same things in Spanish since 8th grade.
11:00-11:45 - Play minesweeper on the computer in the tremendously effective use of our time they call College Prep Class. Again, this is not rhetoric–this is what I do.
12:30-1:20 - Plan out my suicide because my English teacher still deems it necessary to teach us how to form sentences with the “topic” and the “comment.”
1:25-3:05 - Sleep in Physics</p>
<p>And yes I have a 4.0.</p>
<p>A 4.0 is not 100 in every class. At my school, it takes a 95 or higher in every class. Showing up every day and putting in a mild amount of effort almost guarantees a 95.</p>
<p>I go to community college, 4.0 is 90%+, one of my classes was exactly 90% due to a 109/100 on the final.</p>
<p>^At less competitive schools, it’s really not that way. Most of the people in the top 20% (about 10 students at my school) are relatively smart. The ones below that really aren’t that special, just because of the grade inflation. College has a way of sorting these things out.</p>
<p>wait are we talking about high school?</p>
<p>i’ve never been evaluated on a numbers system at my college. i write two or three papers and give a presentation, and the grades on those combine with some vague idea of my attendance and class participation, and i get a letter grade. it’s much easier to get an A this way since a particularly strong paper can overshadow a weak attendance pattern or low class participation in the professor’s memory.</p>
<p>I’ve got a 3.98, 50 hours completed, 1 A-.</p>
<p>We just implemented a 4.3 A+ (97-100).</p>
<p>Last semester, in my accounting class, I had 975 out of 1000 points in my accounting class but I only got an A hahahhahaa</p>
<p>My first and last/third test I got a perfect score practically while I got like a 90 on my 2nd one.</p>
<p>In my second accounting class, I’ve made a perfect score (not practically, but perfect) in both of my tests so far. 4.3 in Accounting here I come :D</p>
<p>Picking geography for my science courses helps :D</p>
<p>Sucking up to teachers? Pfft.</p>
<p>I’m in a film class right now. If I wanted to suck up to him, I would take his opportunity of reviewing my essays before I submit it like most of the kids. Instead, I just turn it in, so he won’t know how much I’ve changed my paper. HAHA</p>
<p>Doing well in high school is 10% intelligence and 90% sitting down, shutting up, and doing as you’re told. </p>
<p>Lots of unintelligent people have 4.0s because they’re very good at the latter.</p>
<p>Getting a 4.0 a my school requires careful preparation by taking classes where you know the professor actually gives As (taken a few courses where the prof gives A-s to everyone = 3.7). I would be inclined to think that students who manage to graduate with a perfect GPA from my are not particularly creative or individual; they have a certain amount of intelligence and know how to work the system.</p>
<p>Well, kta49, a lot of intelligent people have 3.0s because they’re very bad at the latter.</p>
<p>The only 4.0 I have ever gotten was in my 1st semester of college (last semester). Though I took pretty easy classes. I had accounting, biology, and 2 philosophy classes.</p>