<p>So last year our district changed our grading policy from a letter system to a percentage system.Before if you got A,A,B,B you would get an A as a final grade. If you got A,A,A,C you would get a B as a final grade and so on. The current system tallies up your percentages each quarter.So now 85,85,90,90 wouldn't be an A as it was before and it would be a B. I'm curious to see how everyone else is graded,especially depending on the state. (Im in Maryland)</p>
<p>At my school in NJ it’s sort of weird. 90+ is an A. 86-89 is a B+, 80-85 is a B. 76-80 is a C+, 70-75 is a C. 65-70 is a D and anything below 65 is failing. It’s not that weird but it annoys me sometimes that there are pluses at every letter grade except A’s, so when I get high A’s I sometimes feel like I’m not being fully recognized, lol.</p>
<p>Final grades are on the basis of quarters. Each quarter is 20% of the final grade, while the midterm and final exam each count as 10% for a full year course. For a semester course, it’s similar, but each quarter counts for 40% and the midterm/final is the remaining 20%. Usually though final exams don’t seem to have much of an impact; unless your grade is really borderline, the final won’t affect your grade.</p>
<p>It seems like everyone on CC has the 4.0 GPA thing, but that has like never existed in New York City… ever. Except for college. My school does letters but also gives us the number grades anyway. We go E, G, S, N, F. I know, random. Within each letter there’s + and -.</p>
<p>CSIHSIS - To the best of your knowledge, is grading between the specialized high schools and the non-specialized schools in NYC drastically different?</p>
<p>$100 for the first 50 points, $1 per point after that…</p>
<p>@bluedevil: No. Many of the 500+ schools all use different systems. Some use letters and some use numbers, it’s not between specialized and non. </p>
<p>However, as schools like SI Tech have 400+ AP classes, the kids there can potentially have 105+ averages because of the courses being weighted. As my school only has a few I can’t get that high.</p>
<p>A is 93+
B is 85-92
C is 77-84</p>
<p>etc…</p>
<p>We don’t have letter grades or a 4.0 scale. Our GPAs are out of 100. High honor roll is having a 92 or above in every class, honor roll is 85+ in every class. Our IB/AP courses are weighted up to a 100 (I don’t get this, because an unweighted grade of 93 and 100 look the same). For ranking purposes, they weight over 100.</p>
<p>Your semester grade is the average of the percentages for the two quarters, your final grade is your average of the two semester averages with the weight of the final thrown in there somewhere.</p>
<p>Our final average for the class is comprised of the four marking periods and the final exam, which are each worth 20%.</p>
<p>My school district seems weird compared to all of yours. Here, the teacher decides what percentage each letter grade matches. I’ve had some teachers where 90+ is an ‘A’, some where there aren’t any ‘minus’ grades, and one strict teacher who only gave A’s, B’s, and F’s. We also only have quarter grades, no semester or year grades.</p>
<p>Ugh I don’t understand why its so complicated.Why dont they just make a uniform scale of grading for all high schools in the US?</p>