smugg707

So... I was browsing the forum... and I see tons of people with 4.0/4.0, or 3.9/4.0 GPA.. I was very surprised, in my school, even people with 92 average is rare... I was thinking, how can someone get a 100% or like, 99% average? But I guess they calculate it based on A, B, C, D and take average of it?

But, in America A is a 90-100. But in Canada we consider A as a 80-100. Which one do we use? I am guessing 80-100 because it's supposed to be a lot harder to get higher marks in Canada.

Thanks!

trackdude410

kids on cc arent representative of the us as a whole.
tons of 99% percentile people

mrclassicfreak

Yeah. In some States schools, it's even possible to get over an average of 100% while we Canadians work our butts off for a 90.

CDN_dancer

I never understood that (the whole "I got 4.5/4.0" thing) Here no matter how good you are, the highest mark that will show up on the report card is 100% (even if technically it's say 102% because of some bonus question on a test or whatever)

trackdude410

its weighted average, when you take an ap(college level course) many schools will weight that grade so like an A in ap class could be like a 5.0 get a couple of aps and As in them and you easily have higher than 4.0 weighted average

CDN_dancer

Yeah, I understand that; it still seems a little strange just because here, even when we "standardize" IB/AP marks, the max score is still 100% (At my school, we standardize IB marks on a bell curve, with a class average of about 85-89%, depending on the class. The idea being that if we were in the regular equivalent of the IB course, we would be averageing around 85-89%)

RacinReaver

Wait, so an A is 80-100 and the average grade is between an 85 and 90 for AP/IB classes? Sup nice grade inflation there.

Also, the schools I've attended set grades the following way:
A: 93-100
A-: 90-93
B+: 87-90
B: 83-87
B-: 80-83
etc.

So you don't need to have a 99% in every class to have a 4.0, just a 93% or better.

WealthOfInformation

GPA's are like currencies - they exchange at different rates and between Canadian and American grades, there isn't a set equivalent. From my knowledge, Canadians and other foreign students are looked at through a different lens. For most Canadian schools, 88%+ average will make you competitive for the elite private schools in the US.

CDN_dancer

My school doesn't use the letter system at all, so I can't comment on that. One of my teachers at one point did do some sort of letter conversion for a midterm grade, and for him an A was 90+.

The 85-90 average for IB classes again is only for my school; I'm not entirely sure how other schools in my city operate, although I'm guessing it's around that too. In Alberta we have to write provincial standardized tests in grade 12 which count for 50% of our marks, so ideally our school grade is within a few percentages of what we receive on the provincial test. The 85-90 average is based on how classes in the past have done on the provincial exam.

elegant0dancer

I agree with Canadians working their butts off to get a 90.... in my grade only 3 of 185 people have averages above a 90..... so would anything over 90-92 say be an approximate 4.0??

QuixoticRick

Can't you use this?

GPA Converter from Princeton Review

Ambitiousteen

woah really?.... i got a 92% average in grade 11 year first semester and had all three sciences+english HOW YUMMY IS THAT lol... i eased my way through gr 9 and 10 though receiving 83% and 87% overall average... and ur right about the "only gettin 100% on report card" part... i had a 105% in math this second semester LMAO, but it only showed 100% on report card... i guess ur right in which it is harder to claim a better grade in canada, seeing as we do not split or curriculum apart in certain subjects- math/sciences french and english, like the states do.

Ambitiousteen

i think we got about 30 kids or so in the 90% honour roll and thats the total of all 4 grades... only 30 kids... its ridiculous, and theres like 100+ kids in the 80% honour roll