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What?? We were never talking about curving or anything but taking the grades one gets for a course in high school and converting it to a GPA. This was just a bizarre thing for you to say.</p>
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I really am having trouble believing you don’t get this. I will try one more time. Say the original grade on a test is a number from 0-100. You take a series of these tests and accumulate points. Let’s take a simple example. A course gives 3 tests and you score 264 points, for an average of 88. This is put on the transcript as a B+ for the course. This is then assigned a GPA value of 3.67. There is no way this is more precise than the original average score of 88. There is nothing superior in the 3.67 than the 88. Nada. Zilch. In fact it imparts less information, because someone that averaged an 87 also goes into the book with a B+ and therefore has a GPA of 3.67 (in this simple example). So the 0-100 system more finely discriminates these two students than the 4.0 GPA system does. That is the end of the story, proof made.</p>