<p>My HS had a similar policy…basically what they deal was was if you attempted the work (turned in an assignment or took the test and wrote down answers, regardless of how bad they were, you got at least a 50; if you didn’t even attempt the assignment, you got a 0) you got some credit.</p>
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<p>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. :)</p>
<p>You have to consider the fact that a GPA on a 6.0 scale is also measuring them OUT of a score of 6…so while they may have that entirely impressive 4.0/6.0 GPA, in the end it comes out to a 3.333 unweighted…if you think some college applications official is going to see a 5.7 and give a person instant admission, you are wrong.</p>
<p>This is ridiculous. You dont want an F get above a 59% its a simple as that. Quit complaining…</p>
<p>We have 90-100 = A, and so forth till 0-59 = F. No + or -.</p>
<p>For weighting, you add .04 to the overall unweighted GPA for each 1-credit honors class and .08 for each 1-credit AP or community college class. It seems pretty uncommon for districts to just add the weighting on top rather than recalculating. I like this way: seems easier to me :). Also, it doesn’t feel like it’s bringing down your GPA to take music classes: I’ve taken 6, and it feels nicer to have it not affect my weighted GPA rather than bring it down–not that it matters since the kids who go 100% academic get more weighting anyway.</p>
<p>I’ve personally thought a lot about giving a 50% for Fs, and it’s interesting to see that some places do this. In the end, I guess I wouldn’t go with it since it does seem unfair to the students who actually do 50% of the work, and it doesn’t exactly create any incentive for a student to do 50% of the work to begin with. Interesting idea, but I think it should only be considered if the student actually put in some effort (did all the homework for the test it pertained to, for example).</p>
<p>Our system, very simple:</p>
<p>90s = A = 4.0
80s = B = 3.0
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50s = E = 0.0</p>
<p>There is no F, because it lowers self esteem. 
AP classes and Honors classes add 1(so A = 5.0, B=4.0)</p>
<p>There is also the 50% rule. You cannot get below 50 on anything if you did the work. For example, you take a test and attempt one problem…50%. At the teacher’s discretion of course.</p>
<p>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</p>
<p>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?</p>
<p>We’re graded on a 100 point system. It’s possible to get anything from 0-100 on your report card. Unfortunatly they do not show your weighted GPA on your report card or even transcript, but do explain that. Honors and AP classes both are weighted with a 1.1</p>
<p>A’s, B’s, C’s, D’s and F’s are implied - A 64 or lower is considered failing, or F, but it shows up as the actual numerical grade.</p>
<p>I used to go to a private school and we were graded with E, A, B, C, D, F. E was the best. I don’t know if anyone else has ever heard of this, but I don’t really get it. Whatever happened to E’s being in between D’s and F’s on the regular system anyway?</p>
<p>I just learned that in my online school you can’t earn less than a 60 for the first 9 weeks.</p>
<p>In my school if anyone scores below a 40% on any assignment, then the grade will just be recorded as a 40%</p>
<p>Everything else is the same.</p>
<p>Hmm, it makes sense in high school cases where a grades are based on busy work (i.e. where you get some points for completion regardless of whether you demonstrate any meaningful knowledge or skills.) If you blow off an assignment and don’t do it at all, it really shouldn’t be deemed inferior in the calculation of your final grade than doing such a crappy job on it that you get an F at 55% or so. But if you get 55% of the math problems on a test right, that shows you know significantly more than the person who got 0% of the problems right.</p>
<p>I honestly don’t get the point with so many different grading systems. My school has the standard A,B,C,D,F system, with 90+=A, 80+=B, etc. An A is 4.0 unweighted, 5.0 weighted if applicable. So far, the system works out just fine. If you do manage to screw up your grade in the first few weeks, tough luck; nobody really cares. Changing the way we label failing grades doesn’t really change the fact that those grades are still considered failing.</p>
<p>In my house anything below 90% is failing.</p>
<p>Lo es 0-64 a mi escuela.</p>
<p>"Our system, very simple:</p>
<p>90s = A = 4.0
80s = B = 3.0
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50s = E = 0.0</p>
<p>There is no F, because it lowers self esteem.
AP classes and Honors classes add 1(so A = 5.0, B=4.0)</p>
<p>There is also the 50% rule. You cannot get below 50 on anything if you did the work. For example, you take a test and attempt one problem…50%. At the teacher’s discretion of course."</p>
<p>wow, I wish my school had that grading scale…
Here’s my school’s;</p>
<p>94 - 100 – A
90 - 93 – B+
84 - 89 – B
80 - 83 – C+
74 - 79 – C
70 - 73 – D+
64 - 69 – D
anything below – F</p>
<p>Our system is slightly different compared to most that I’ve read here so far.</p>
<p>A = 93-100 4.0
B = 92-85 3.0
C = 75-84 2.0
D = 70-74 1.0
F = 0-69 0.0</p>
<p>Our honors and AP classes have weight as such:</p>
<p>AP - 5 points added to numerical average
Honors - 3 points added to numerical average</p>
<p>Oddly enough, our school uses the numerical average of our grades to determine class rank instead of quality point average.</p>