GPA Calculation With No + or - Grades: Good or Bad?

doubleplay
Tue, 04 Sep 2007 09:13:57 +0000

If you are a grade groupie, part of the strategy is to know going into the final weeks of class where you stand and what you need to do to maintain or increase your grade. Sad but true part of being a grade grubbing student (tongue in cheek).

If you do not get plus’s or minus’s, and you have a solid B in a class with no hope of getting an A, it is in your best interest to perhaps turn your attention elsewhere during finals week (where you CAN effect a higher grade), and do what it takes on that particular final to keep your B. That may mean that you study less, take a C on the final, and end up with an 80 in the class.

Meanwhile, you may have used that extra study time to really give another course a heroic last final effort, and maybe pull THAT grade up from a B to an A. That may very well be what these kids that make the 80 B’s are doing…which is actually a very smart thing to do.