what's an A at your school?

Applying to College
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<p>AnitaVM - I'm from Calgary :)</p>

<p>I can relate to the curving thing.
Class average in math = 63
Class average on regular midterm = 91 (which we take so we don't completely fail and so they have something to curve us to)
New class average = 86-89 ish (you have this formula with cote-z's to figure it out... which is probably the wrong vocab but I'm in french math so yeah!)
I have a 97 ;)
Unstandardized, there's probably nobody above 84. </p>

<p>Math is the only class in our school that gets curved like that. All the other IB classes usually just add 3-5%. Usual averages in languages and science hover around 78 - 85% and then they add on to that. They do it so that we aren't penalized in uni admissions for doing harder and more work (or so they tell us). Regular classes get nothing added, but for good reason. They go a lot slower... my friend's class spent a WHOLE 90 minutes talking about significant digits and graphs, while we did that in about 5 minutes. Not to mention that the regular classes go slower and STILL have lower averages.... questionable. If I was in regular classes I would get a lot more sleep... ;) </p>

<p>Still, with all the curving, most people have an average of 85% ish in IB and a lot lower in regular (75 maybe?). So grade inflation is not really there at all.</p>

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<p>89.5-100 = A
79.5- 89 = B
69.5-79 = C
59.5-69 = D
<59 = E</p>

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<p>this is all interesting, so from all this ****.. i'm guessing schools like harvard arent going to be mad at my one 91 B</p>

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<p>In my school</p>

<p>85-100 A+
75-85 A-</p>

<p>but then,hardly 1% of the ppl get an A+</p>

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<p>lol whaaat why isn't there a plain A?</p>

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<p>its actually A1, A2, B1, B2 ..... most indian schools follow such a grading system!!</p>