<p>You dont have to have perfect grades to get an A. You could always charm a teacher and get a better grade. I am know to be a B- student and a b+ at times, but still get A's due to me having a good relationship with a teacher, making me involved in their life and them in mine.</p>
<p>It works for me.</p>
<p>it has to be possible to have straight a's in college, at least for a few people. college is on a different level altogether so getting all As in high school doesn't guarantee you will do the sme in college, and the same goes for if you got Bs and Cs in high school.</p>
<p>Opposite also, some people do horrible in HS, get to college and own it.</p>
<p>"it has to be possible to have straight a's in college, at least for a few people."</p>
<p>Not necessarily...my school deflates a bit and doesn't give out A's often...I don't think anyone has received a 4.0 GPA. Possibly a 4.0 GPI, but not GPA.</p>
<p>Who cares what GPA you get? You come to college to learn. Even if you're continuing to grad school - GPA is not that big of a deal.</p>
<p>Grad school, Med school, How about a Job</p>
<p>Gpa means everything</p>
<p>What if the entire grade for the class is based on 4 exams and a final exam? Do you have to get 100% on every one to get a A?</p>
<p>Its hard to say online, its almost 100% dependent on the professor.</p>
<p>No.</p>
<p>Say the professor curves so that the average grade is a 75 (a random and arbitrary number). Say the average score is a 65. You add 10 points to each score to get the curved grade. So, to get an A (which is usually a 94 or above), you would need to have a test average of 84.</p>
<p>So, if there are two tests, you can get:</p>
<p>100 and 68, 84 and 84, 90 and 78, and so on.</p>
<p>That's how most professor curve. Some will look at grades independently and focus on the distribution and spread more than the average. It depends. The overall point is that you just have to do better than everyone else.</p>
<p>"You come to college to learn."</p>
<p>Exactly. And usually (not every time), learning for that class leads to very good grades anyway whether you expect it or not.</p>
<p>To make matters more frustrating, in most of my classes, they'll just pass back tests and tell you the average. Based on that you're supposed to figure out where you stand in the class. Also, most of my class grades are based soley on 1 or 2 midterms and the final. The final is usually a large portion of the grade, I've had finals worth 40%. The overall grade is usually a "surprise" as in "Oh cool! My 66% is an A! That's awesome!". </p>
<p>But really I think you're worrying about specifics that don't matter yet and we can't tell you the answers to. If you're wondering whether an 88% is a B+ in the end, we can't tell you.. it depends on the prof, the average, etc.. factors we don't know first hand.</p>
<p>"The overall grade is usually a 'surprise'... "</p>
<p>It gets really bad when the class has a substantial portion of your grade based upon non-numerical criteria (such as papers, presentations, etc.). With exams, you can guess where you are if you know the average (which the professor will usually tell you).</p>
<p>We have a required semester-long project that is comprised of four 4-credit courses. You have class from 8-12 every day with the normal assignments, projects, presentations and whatnot. Each class has a midterm and a final. The grading for each class was as follows:</p>
<p>20% Midterm for that class
20% Final for that class
20% Participation for that class
40% Project</p>
<p>Everyone knows their midterm grade and probably has an idea of what the final exam and participation grades were, but the project was a big question mark. It's one very large project that comprises 40% of your grade in each class. Since you don't get the project grade until a month after the final grades are determined, all you can really do is guess and genuflect until grades are postted.</p>
<p>Since the project components are a business plan and presentation, you can't compute the grade like an exam, so the grades are based heavily on how you compare to previous years' projects and your classes. It's very hard to tell. They give--at most--one A or A- a class for the project (there are usually seven teams in a class), and don't always even give one. I was terrified about my grade, but breathed a major sigh of relief at the end.</p>
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Wrong. Many colleges and universities award A+ grades. I should know -- I've earned several.</p>
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**Even if you're continuing to grad school - GPA is not that big of a deal.
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Are you serious? Your GPA is a huge deal if you want to attend grad school, especially law school.</p>
<p>Law school and medical school are professional schools, not graduate schools. </p>
<p>At least in the sciences, for graduate admissions undergraduate GPA takes a definite backseat to faculty recommendations and research experience.</p>
<p>CUrving is like this.</p>
<p>THe highest grade in your class is a 90. She needs 10 more poitns to get 100. So prof adds 10 points to EVERYONE's grade. Highest grade is no a 100 and the original 60 you made on the test is now a 70.</p>
<p>what if the highest grade is a 60? does the professor add 40 points to everybody's test?</p>
<p>Not, it usually gets rounded so half is B or above and half is below the B</p>
<p>it depend son the courses and professors. I stink at math and hate it greatly...I di dokay in hs, but it was tough for me. In college I took a stat and a pre-calc class with teachers who were EXCELLENT and though there was a lot of homework, I did not struggle with it like I did in hs and ended up getting As without much stress. Then again, I always liked writing and got As in my English clases in hs (I got a B I think in one advanced class freshman year though).....I took a writing seminar in college and ended up getting a B+.....the teacher thought I could do better.......my language classes are the easy classes and always have been since hs. linguistics is my major and I have mostly Bs in my linguistics classes because some of the stuff is just hard....</p>
<p>so it just depends.....I have not gotten anything below a B- and I hope it stays like that cuz its easy to bring gpa down but very hard to bring it back up. I had a 3.9 in hs (senior) but right now have a 3.57 in college as a jr. My gpa wen tdown from a 3.7.....so I have to do some major work to get it up to par before I graduate.</p>
<p>Am I the only who hates the A-? Really, I used to be fine with it in high school (before it was no longer a "real A").</p>
<p>(spoken like a true grade whore, yes?)</p>
<p>Haha, here at MIT plus/minus modifiers are internal only... that is to say, A = A- = 5.0, B+ = B = B- = 4.0, etc...</p>
<p>So personally, I love A-'s -- they are recorded as A's on my transcript! What I really hate are B+'s.</p>