@romanigypsyeyes , my son’s school provides only a single grade for the course for the year. Some teachers have a policy of “rounding up” if there’s been an upward trend over the year while others average evenly, arguing that it’s a grade for the year and why should better performance at the end of the year count for more than at some other point. There was one year when DS started off very badly – the teacher had a policy of grading very hard to prepare the kids for the way they’d be graded on the AP exam. He eventually learned what she wanted and his grades came up steadily over the year. He finished a mere 0.5% below cutoff for the next grade, and the teacher didn’t round up. Painful lesson because nobody looking at the transcript could see the trend. (He did get a 5 on the AP though!!)