Failure Reset from Zero to Fifty

machinegungeek
Tue, 27 May 2008 01:28:53 +0000

Well, at my school 59 and below is failing and you fail a class if you fail more than one of the following: Marking Period 1, Marking Period 2, the Final Exam. So if you are no good on exams, you better not fail either marking period. I don’t know what a fail is computed at, but I heard that someone is graduating with a 1.6. Our grading scale is as follows;
93-100 A 4.0
92-90 A- 3.7

And that’s all I know. Sad, huh? I also know that we have no “honors” courses and that we only weight AP’s which are weighted +0.7 (so a 4.7 is max). For some reason, our district has some degree of a grade inflating reputation but I don’t see it. A’s in some classes are easy, but no one has an unweighted 4.0 this year (the highest is all A’s with an A- in a half credit course. I have all A’s with an A- in a full credit course) and two of my classes (AP Chem and AP Bio) had only two kids with A’s in them. I had the highest AP Chem grade with a 93.2! How is that grade inflation? The highest GPA this year is a 4.18, and last year (I think the local math/science center classes were more heavily weighted than they are now), which may be the record, was a 4.23. How can this be called grade inflation?