A’s [92.5 - 97.5%] are worth 4.0
A-'s [90.0 - 92.5] are worth 3.75
A+ [97.5 - 100] are 4.5
This trend continues for all the other grades.
This policy really used to stink when AP boosts were only .5 of a point and honors were only .25, which effectually rendered an A+ in a normal class worth to be worth more than an A in honors and the same as an A in an AP. Since then my school has increased the boost to 1.0 point for AP and .5 for honors, which has helped alleviate this.
Everyone realizes that colleges aren’t going to care between an A and an A+, however the super high grade boost for an A+ plays a disproportionate role in class rank and other GPA based awards and opportunities, especially among the super competitive academic circles.
I was wondering if anyone else had similar experiences with weird grading policies and wanted to share/vent about them.
I had a teacher that had a policy of not giving 100’s. If people deserved a 100, they got a ninety nine. I think one term I actually did have a 100 average, but I don’t really care. It was just weird of her.
My county used to make it that that if you got a 92, you would get a B instead of an A-. Yikes!!! Thankfully, they’ve stopped doing that now.
A weird thing about my county is that there are a few electives where they give you two credits even when it is one class, which I’ve always found strange. These people end up having the highest GPAs because of this. For example, Criminal Justice 2 in my school counts as two credits. If you get an A, you get 4.0 times 2 and get 8.0 in the weighted scale. I never understood why they allowed some electives to do this.
@anthonytheboy My state used to have that 7 point scale where a 92 was a B. Luckily, we’re on the 10 point scale now. I wish they made the change before I got into high school because my GPA would be so much higher.
So my dad grew up in Canada and apparently the grade inflation was higher than Trump’s ego, I’m not even kidding. Like an 85 was an A and 60 was a C? I got 88 in a class and said it was a B+ and he goes, “No, that’s an A!” Jealous af.
^^greenteen, my sister’s 8th grade English teacher does the same thing of not giving 100s, because “writing can always be improved”. So she gets 98-99 on everything.
And my school doesn’t rank, because we’re insanely competitive academic-wise and it would make people miserable, but we DO have a histogram graph on our transcript by weighted GPA interval (bar graph showing students in range of 4.5-5, 4.0-4.5, 3.5-4, etc). So if you have a 4.4 GPA, you’re in the top 24%, which sounds lower than it actually is.
At my kids’ high school 93-100 is an A. For my D18, this works out fine. But my D20 often gets in the low 90’s. At most other schools, she’d be an A student, but not at her school.
Those As and Bs are then converted to a 4 point scale. I worry about whether colleges will take that into consideration.
@MACmiracle Sorry, Mac, that you faced that. However, I do have the same question. I wonder if colleges take the letter grade into consideration because I heard colleges only see our letter, final grade on our transcript…
My high school did 94-100 = 4.0 and 85-93 = 3.0. It wasn’t a difficult school, though. In some cases, a harder-looking grading scale is balanced out by the school being easier. I would have preferred it the other way around.
Oh and also… my history teacher is way too nice. For the last test of the term, he weighted it as 0.5 the points if it brought down your grade, and weighted it fully if it improved your grade. And said that he added points for homework that students could have done (that they didn’t?). And random points just to be nice? He’s really into cushioning everyone’s grades…
@catsss I wish I had your history teacher. I think my old AP World History was sadistic and loved to see his students struggled. He literally laughed at us stressing about a test. He gave tons of work, super long test, and graded very hard. There was no cushion for our grade. It was basically a class of who failed the least. I did okay, barely getting a B (if I got one less point I would have a C) and that was after points of the class where I had an F. He was a little easier on us at the end of the year because AP exams.
IMO good teachers are those who genuinely want their students to succeed and act like it.