<p>I'm guessing it's the A = 93+ scale. I've also seen A = 90, B = 80, etc. scale, which doesn't use pluses and minuses. And then there are the lesser known ones like A = 94, etc.</p>
<p>So which is it? Obviously if the school grades on a 4.0 scale then you would use that one but my school does transcripts on a 100 pt. scale.</p>
<p>At my school an A is 93+, an A- is 90-92, a B+ is 87-89 and so on. It used to have the 94+ is an A scale, but that was before I was in high school. I think the 93+ scale is the most common.</p>
<p>At my school, and A is 93+, A- is 90-92, B+ is 87-89, and so on.</p>
<ul>
<li>and - doesn’t affect GPA, so it varies teacher to teacher for that (some teachers don’t even use - or +) </li>
</ul>
<p>at my school, it’s usually
A = 90
B = 80
C = 70
etc. </p>
<p>However, some teachers have different scales, like my calculus BC teacher:
A = 85
B = 70
etc.</p>
<p>94-100 = A = 4.0
85-93 = B = 3.0
74-84 = C = 2.0
65-73 = D = 1.0
0-64 = F = 0</p>
<p>No pluses/minuses, no weighting. Our transcripts only show letter grades.</p>
<p>My school gives +/- on grades but it doesnt factor into GPA. </p>
<p>98-100 = A+
93-97 = A
90-92 = A-
88-89 = B+
83-87 = B
80-82 = B</p>
<p>However, an A+ is no different than an A- for GPA purposes, an A (90-100) is a 4, B is 3, etc. </p>
<p>I only know one school in my area that uses a different scale (It uses 95-100 = A, 90-94 = B, 85-89 = C, 80-84 = D, 0-79 = F)… I’ve never seen a 93= A scale, so I don’t think it’s incredibly common. The only reason it’s so common on CC, imo, is that students here are more likely to go to elite schools than the general public… Thus a higher average grading scale.</p>
<p>My school:
A = 90-100
B = 80-89 etc. (no pluses or minuses)</p>
<p>I wasn’t even aware there were other grading scales before I came to CC. TV shows almost always either seemed to follow my county’s scale or one with pluses/minuses. So besides the fact that my county doesn’t have Fs (we have Es, which I guess makes more since alphabetically) I always assumed my school was normal.</p>
<p>@bailey </p>
<p>I don’t go to an elite school. Not even close.</p>
<p>Yep, before I came to high school, there was none of this 4.0 GPA nonsense, just A = 90%+, B = 80-89%, etc. Life was much simpler back then. Now I get all this conflicting information. I don’t even know the grading system anymore.</p>
<p>Mine is 95and up is an a, 93-94 is an a-, so basically 7 points for each letter</p>
<p>My school doesn’t have pluses or minuses - 93+ is an A, 86-92 is a B, and so on.
Even though we’re nowhere close to elite, we have a lot of grade inflation going on, so GPAs can go above 5.0.</p>
<p>Most of my friends from other states operate on a basic ten-point scale, and my 4.25 is very jealous.</p>
<p>I always thought elite schools would appear to have a more lenient grading scale to make up for the difficulty of the classes (i.e. 90-100 is an A). If there’s a connection at all, and there might not be.
I go to a smallish rural school, and the grading scale (93 is a B) makes it seem like they’re trying to compensate for grade inflation without actually changing anything. My school says their goal is for all students to have a B average or higher, but if we didn’t have grade inflation a B would be above average and they’d want everyone to get at least a C.</p>