<p>I’m looking around and there are kids like getting straight 100s</p>
<p>quite honestly, how is this possible?</p>
<p>and the ironic part behind this is that these kids are also scoring poorly on their SATs</p>
<p>shouldn’t the GPA/SAT thing correlate?</p>
<p>some students are naturally gifted smart. this one kid, i literally watched him every day before the test. he wouldnt even open his books, infact he gave me all his textbooks and didnt write down a single note in class. </p>
<p>he just turned his ipod on and went to sleep.</p>
<p>day of the test, he got a hundred… on every single subject, every single time.</p>
<p>day of the sats, he didnt prepare. he was cocky and ended up with a 1980</p>
<p>i guess its tricky, u need to think out ur answer a lot</p>
<p>Some schools are easier than others…</p>
<p>however, jimbo</p>
<p>same material has to be taught.</p>
<p>The highest A i’ve ever received in high school was a 93 and that was mainly because i’m naturally inclined towards that class</p>
<p>most of my As were 90/91 and i had to work for those</p>
<p>The level of difficult of the school definitely factors into it.</p>
<p>I did…up until Junior year. Then it all went to low A’s/A-'s…when classes got harder</p>
<p>oooh & one B. I legit cried, but got an A- for the year so it’s all good</p>
<p>yea, Im glad on the 4.0 system an A- counts as a 4.0 (at least it does at my school). I tend to not take notes, do minimal study, score high Bs on every test, then HW and class work bump my grade to about 91. for every class. lol, and now i have a 4.6. w00t</p>
<p>^ @ my school A- is like a 3.7. it sucks cause I got 4 92–92.45’s this term(A-s) except our GPAs are weighted for AP’s so it’s not that bad i guess</p>
<p>so I still have close to a 4.6</p>
<p>Yes, some schools are much easier than others… Well teachers specifically.</p>
<p>I had teachers who gave their class extra credit projects. Needless to say I got over a 100 for the semester.</p>
<p>Other teachers, such as my AP Biology, gave me AP exam for quizzes/tests and well, I ended up with a low 90 and high 80s in the class. Some teachers don’t even teach, just read off powerpoint slides or let us watch movies instead of read the book.</p>
<p>This is why I think AP exam scores should be valued more in college admissions. But I guess the SAT takes care of that.</p>
<p>It really depends on the difficulty of the school. My school is an “A is for attendance” kind of place.</p>
<p>most US high schools are jokes where anyone who wants an A can get one.</p>
<p>I completely agree with the above posts. It definitely depends on the school, and the grade in some schools. During my sophomore year most of my classes were so easy that I never had to really study for anything. This year (junior year), I spend hours and hours a night on homework and studying, and it’s getting MUCH harder to keep consistent As.</p>
<p>Level of school difficulty + grade inflation = high GPA. Though, as mentioned earlier, some kids are just naturally gifted, and therefore recieve high scores.</p>
<p>It also depends. We were allowed to get over 100%, up to 110%. So, for some classes we had extra credit. My 100%+ would bring up my 90s. However, my GPA is lower than I thought because I wasn’t aware how harsh the GPA scale was (i.e., I thought an A was a 4.0 period… I didn’t know a 93 was only a 3.8 until late last year).</p>
<p>Well, seeing as a 95 is an A- on my school’s grading scale, I kind of have to get 95+ in order to maintain an A average.</p>
<p>As for my SAT/ACT, I have a 32 ACT, but an 1850 SAT. My school’s average is considerably lower on both though (somewhere in the 22-24, 1200-1400 range), so I’m not exactly experiencing that big discrepancy you speak of.</p>
<p>-shrug- Just depends on the person, I guess.</p>
<p>I think it depends on the person. My ACT/SAT scores are quite mediocre (28/1830 =/), yet I have a 4.0, and 4s and 5s on my AP tests. Some of my friends, however, got 2000/30+, but have a ~3.5, and ranked lower than me (I’m 21/603).</p>
<p>Or maybe I’m just terrible at the SAT/ACT.</p>
<p>The kids getting 95+ do their homework. I get 90’s 91’s in my math and science classes because i do about half of my homework. SO DO YOUR HOMEWORK!</p>
<p>I have all As in IB Classes, yet I have a 1910 on the SATs. Why? Because I can write killer scholarly essays with developed lines of logic. Give me multiple choice and I fail epically.</p>
<p>I second everything people have said in this thread. Again, it totally depends in the context of your school. I attend a highly competitive small private school, with most of my classmates coming from affluent families who can afford tutors and all that jazz, and so it’s definitely a lot harder to get an A here than it is at the local public high schools.</p>