<p>Colleges must get annoyed with these “alternative” grading systems. Next year, my school is going to a “rubric” system that rates every kid on a scale from 1-4, 3 being meeting expectations and 4 going “above and beyond.” So they’re basically making the system completely subjective instead of partially subjective. Nice.</p>
<p>Luckily, that starts with my sister’s class. :)</p>
<p>At my prior district and at this one, the student’s grade on a report card cannot be lower than a 50 for any report card term. They can get lower than a 50 for the semester if their final exam drops it below that. That rationale is that this gives kids the incentive to try and pass after a bad 6 or 9 weeks. But if they see a zero or a very low grade they know that statistically they can’t pass, so they quit trying. I can’t say I agree with this, though the computer will not allow us to plug in a lower grade. I think if we give the kids who are not doing anything 30 points, we should give it to all the kids. So we reward the worst and don’t do anything to reward the kids who really do the work. Another “Let’s worry about their self-esteem and give them a false sense of accomplishment” idea, IMHO.</p>
<p>mfleity^ my middle school tried that. what it did was make it nearly impossible to get all A’s (you have to go “above and beyond” on every assignment), though it makes it REALLY easy to scrape a D. students can not do nearly half of their assignments and still pull a D.
my school quickly changed the policy to include an andendum (sp) saying that if you didn’t do at least 60% of the assignments then you would automatically fail.</p>
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<p>I don’t see it as grade inflation. It’s just a different scale. Plus, 96% is a pretty high requisite for the highest grade possible. At my school it ranges from 92.5-94 depending on the class.</p>
<p>I’ve noticed people confusing heavily weighted grades with grade inflation before, but it’s not inflation unless a higher percentage of the student is getting near the maximum GPA, making the standard deviation curve narrower. If the curve is well spread out then no inflation is occurring, regardless of how high the scale goes. Correct me if I’m wrong.</p>
<p>An F, in my school, generally, would be from 0 to 59 percent.</p>
<p>F is anything below a C at our school. No D’s. i.e. 0-69% is flunking.</p>
<p>My school grades on a 100-point scale, so we don’t have any problems like that. 65 is the lowest grade one can get without failing.</p>
<p>However, on our transcript, it says that 90+ is an A, 80+ is a B, 70+ is a C, and 65+ is a D. I guess that’s only used for finding GPAs on a 4-point scale.</p>
<p>At my school failing is a 65- but I count myself as failing with anything below 80. I am such a nerd :p</p>
<p>…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…</p>
<p>^I think admissions people are a little more discerning than that. Usually part of the transcript includes things like what the scale is and what GPA the #1 person has.</p>
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<p>Don’t worry about it. I know (having just heard a Harvard admission officer say so in response to a question Sunday evening) that simply having a high G.P.A. number doesn’t impress admission committees. The first thing the admission committee has to do when the members see a high G.P.A. number is figure out what that means. Maybe all it means is that the high school uses very different numbers to designate grade averages–nothing more.</p>
<p>At my school, anything below a 70 is failing no matter what type of class it is. However, it’s impossible to get anything below a 50 in a class. If you do make less than a 50 in a class, it doesn’t matter because the report card says it’s a 50. I think that’s dumb. =/ If you earned below a 50, then you should have it on your report card.</p>
<p>This discussion reminds me of a family story: As a high-school student, my father once announced to my grandfather that on a difficult test in French, he had “received the highest score among all those who failed.”</p>
<p>There’s a serious lack of recognition in this thread of just how arbitrary all grading standards are. </p>
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<p>Well. At my school, grades like an A or a B aren’t put in the computer for individual assignments, just the actual score. Do some schools just input the letter grade? That seems stupid to me. But at the end of the year, of course, the percentages are turned into a letter grade for GPA purposes and such. (93-100 = A, 90-93 = A-, 87-89 = B+, etc). An A in an honors or AP class is a 4.6, in a regular it’s a 4.0. I don’t know the other grade values, except that an F is a 0 no matter what type of class it is.</p>
<p>Unless things have changed since I last subscribed, this is the same principle underlying the 100-point scoring system for wines in the Wine Spectator magazine.</p>
<p>That is, a wine received 50 points simply for existing. No wine could possibly score less than 50 unless it had no color, no taste, and no aroma. The remaining 50 points had to be earned.</p>
<p>Our school is old school. You have to get 95+ to get an A, 94-85 is a B, 84-75, 74-70 is a D. Anything below seventy is failing and what you get is what they report. AP is 1.1 weighted, but I’m not exactly sure when because it wasn’t on my last report card. I have a transcript question, do they show percentage grades, 4.0 grades or letter grades? And do colleges see term grades or only semester or year grades?</p>
<p>my school grading system is fairly normal I think:
A=100 to 90=4 or a 5 “in an AP or some honors classes”
B=89 to 80=3 or a 4 " "
C=79 to 70=2 or a 3 " "
D=69 to 60=1 or a drop (get a D in an AP class=you failed)
F=59 to 50=0</p>
<p>So pretty simple. Luckily, on our transcripts, percentages are not saved, just our grades (not even + or - shows up).</p>
<p>last year the local h.s. eliminated “D” and set F for anything below 70.</p>
<p>AND . . .</p>
<p>an F in any core H.S. class means the district WILL NOT issue a high school diploma. no excuses. no make-ups. no summer school.</p>
<p>GED has become the alternative.</p>
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Wow.</p>
<p>Haven’t GED reqs gotten stricter?</p>
<p>i don’t really know too much about the G.E.D.
you should have seen the faces on some of the students this time last year when it became obvious that the administration stood firm.
this is only the second year - but it does appear that most of those who will have to opt for the GED would probably have had to opt for the GED anyway.</p>