Fairfax Grading Tough -- 94% an A

Nam3less
Wed, 07 Jan 2009 03:54:48 +0000

Here is my high school’s grading scale:

A: 95-100
B: 88-94
C: 81-87
D: 75-80
F: below 75

There are NO PLUS OR MINUS ON GPA or grading. You either get a 4 or 3(A or B) depending on what you get. I got a 3.0 on one class for getting a 94.2% on a semester grade even though I aced the language test perfectly including the speaking part, which was like 10 minutes of interview with our teacher. I was not happy with that, but what are you going to do? I think anything below 70 should be failing. I think our scale is a little on the high side.

This applies to all levels: Regulars, Honors, and AP classes. NO EXTRA CREDIT ON ANY CLASS allowed either. Some teachers cheat the policy and allow extra credit, no student has complained from those few times a teacher has offered extra credit to improve their grade as far as I know.

90% of people who got an A cheated because it was impossible to really maintain an A. On our AP classes, it is rare to see more than 3 As. If there are more than 3, then the others who got also an A cheated. I am not joking. A lot of people cheat to get an A. I would say 90% of As were obtained through cheating since few individuals can actually earn them in a legit manner. I remember once in Econ class, I had the highest legit grade, with two As being cheated by those who had them. There were NO legit As in that class all year since I kept missing the A and those 5 As(3 in one semester and two in another) were through cheating. I am not talking about me speculating, I literally saw them and was told by them that they cheated.

That was the same for most classes. In one class there were two legit As, me and another guy. NOBODY else could maintain an A all semester till in the final some people cheated and there ended up being 4 As in the class. Me and the other guy were good friends and we literally had the whole class begging to be on our group since sometimes the teacher curved those “group projects”(which was really more of a massive study guide before finals which are a few hours long for each class) or whatever which usually consisted of a few essays, 300 multiple choice problems, and whatnot.

At the end it was no surprise, I got the 5 in the AP exam along with the other guy and those cheating As got 4 and a 3.

If you got an A in the class, you were almost guarantee a 5 on the AP exam. Even if you got a B, you still had a high chance of a 5. The class average was a 4 which made sense considering most were getting Bs and Cs. Those who were at the end of the AP classes got 3s, those who got Bs and Cs got 4s mainly, those who got As were rarely ever seen without a 5. Our grades were a good guide to what we were going to get on the AP exam. I still think the grades are a bit high as a lot of 5s often got Bs in the class. If you are getting 5s on your AP exams, by most school standards, you would be getting an A in a class.