<p>Ah, one point scored for MIT. Too bad I am not a math/science enthusiast. =P</p>
<p>anyone know how hard it is for bio majors to get 3.7-4.0's at UCSD taking some easy and some hard classes. (this is general and opinion based)</p>
<p>is 4.0 the highest possible gpa in college? my high school gpa system is out of 5.0.</p>
<p>It depends on what type of curving. For example, I have/had a statistics class where the teacher used a true bell curve.</p>
<p>That meant that the highest grades were given A's and the lowest grades were given F's. Then the statistical averages were given C's and the other grades were given based on their deviation from the average.</p>
<p>So basically the top 10-15% of the class got A's while the bottom 25% of the class basically failed.</p>
<p>What numerical grade do you usually need to get to recieve an 'A' ? </p>
<p>If the grade you need to get an 'A' for that course is a '93-100', than would there be any difference in getting a '93' and getting a '100' ? Are they both recorded as A's on your transcript and calculated as 4.0 GPA or differently? </p>
<p>How do they differentiate between someone who got a 93% and someone who got a 100%??</p>
<p>Haha, IAmTheEvilest, it's always the statistics classes that do things like that. I think the statistics profs get carried away by how much fun it is to look at grade distributions and calculate population parameters and assign grades.</p>
<p>l33twarr10r, as has been said many times in this thread, the exact percentage needed for an A varies from school to school, and from class to class. The best general rule is that (for a B-centered class), an A means doing better than the class average by at least one standard deviation from the mean over the course of the whole semester.</p>
<p>"How do they differentiate between someone who got a 93% and someone who got a 100%??"</p>
<p>HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! There is no difference in most colleges between the top of the A and the bottom of the A. The standard for an A in most of my classes has been a 90%, but many classes curved, some down to the point where an 82% was still an A (and nobody will ever know the difference between the people that got near 100 and those who squeaked by with a 82.0%).
I have missed getting an A by less than 1 percentage point in 2 classes thus far and nobody cares. I got B's, my gpa isn't perfect, and life goes on. The whole point of college is to learn how to learn for yourself. Percentages and grades can't easily measure those things. You get out of college what you put into it. Don't run your undergrad life worried about your chances for grad school. Do your personal best, learn new things outside your specialty areas, and forget about getting a 4.0. If it happens, great, good for you, but if you expect it and get disappointed when it doesn't happen, don't let it wreck your dreams.</p>
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<p>plus-minus system?</p>
<p>i got strait As in high school and I can say for certain that i will NOT be getting the same in college</p>
<p>133, where do you go to college? Is it very competitive there? You shouldn't worry so much, I'm sure you will do just fine. Just worry about doing your own best job, and don't worry so much about curves because they are basically out of your control anyway. Each porfessor does things differently so generalizing really won't help you.</p>
<p>For one of my courses an 'A' is 93-100 and a 'A-' is somewhere below that. </p>
<p>If theres no way to differentiate between the an 100 and a 93, than wouldn't alot of people have the same GPA since your GPA for a class can only be 4.0, 3.7, 3.3, 3.0, etc. ?</p>
<p>Then how do people get GPA's of 3.28 or some other number? Wouldn't alot of people have the exact same GPA?</p>
<p>Isn't your GPA an average of all your classes? So different people taking different classes (with perhaps different marking schemes in each), and performing differently in each one...</p>
<p>(Wow, talk about repetition of words! :))</p>
<p>Still with GPA difference of only .3 or .6 difference, ALOT of people would still have the EXACT same GPA. There would be ALOT of people getting same GPA which lowers its value.</p>
<p>Nope, if you take a lot of different people with a lot of different schedules you'll get all sorts of interesting combinations for GPA...take for instance (from my school where there are no + or - grades)...(and no, this isn't my GPA)</p>
<p>1st semester: A for 11 credit hours, B for 7 credit hours = 3.61
2nd semester: A for 11 credit hours, B for 6 credit hours = 3.65
Average from the first 2 semesters = 3.63</p>
<p>Since most people are taking different numbers of credit hours and are getting Bs in courses that have more or less credit hours, it's actually quite unlikely that someone will have the exact same GPA as you by the time you get to your final year of college.</p>
<p>So its better to get an A in classes with more credit hours?</p>
<p>yep, more "quality points" translate to a higher gpa</p>
<p>-_- Also depends on how hard your high school was. It's way easy to get A's in some high schools while back-breaking in others.</p>
<p>Even within our district, getting A's in Troy HS or my school is FREAKING hard, but a joke in Fullerton or Sonora HS. -_-;</p>
<p>2 hours of studying for just one class would be a light day for me. -_-;</p>
<p>An "A+" can mean a lot for people going to law school.</p>
<p>Sure, GPA is important for grad school, but much less than compared to law or med school.</p>
<p>i will get a 4.0, period. and i will study day in and day out if thats what it takes.</p>
<p>Almost nonone has a 4.0 in college, I've known of a couple people who had all A's up to junior year and then got some A-,B's. If your looking at grad school they only care that you have a reasonable gpa 3.5 or better and also they don't really care about how you did in non-major classes.
Also studying more won't always help, in the sciences a lot test questions will be about extending the concepts covered in the class so even if you study more it won't help.</p>