Failure Reset from Zero to Fifty

aigiqinf
Fri, 23 May 2008 00:59:15 +0000

…holy crap, people can get 6.0 GPAs?? At my school, you have to get a 100 in a regular class to get a 4.0, and a 95 in an AP. The highest GPA anyone has ever gotten is a 4.8! This isn’t fair… admissions people will see my hard-earned 4.1weighted and ignore me because other people have 5.9’s…



Um it’s actually a state policy that our grading scale is allowed and a good number of schools use it. It’s very helpful in ranking, and you have to take it in context. Before this year, it was impossible for someone in my county to take more than 4 APs in their entire High School career. Nowadays, you could take 8 if you REALLY tried hard at it (Most of them being online).
Of course, my state magnet school uses:
Intro Classes: A=90=5.0
Advanced Classes: A=90=5.5
1st Year College courses and beyond: A=90=6.0
I would kill for that grading scale, of course I heard that grades are left up to the professors and in one physics class the highest score would be a 60% on a test and a 53% would be an A.
One has to take at least 5 standard classes in my county, so 5.9 would be impossible. In fact, I think the current record for the highest GPA is a 5.19 in my county… which I intend to Shatter. :)