x/4.0 GPA or x/100 avg?

go4cornell
Tue, 19 Oct 2010 22:26:28 +0000

Oh well at my school once you get a .5 in your average your percentage is rounded up. Also, we get letters for mid term reports only but actual scores for the three end of term reports each year. On the mid-term reports the +'s are for showing effort and the -'s for a lack of effort but only 1 percent of the teachers actually use them lol so basically an 81 can get a B+ and an 88 a B- based on the teacher’s discretion. And on the reports they rank you in your class by your averages so a 88 average can come 1/40 but if the school was actually suppose to rank using the 4.0 system that person might get screwed over in the process lol There are si many differences with the two systems and while I do agree with the facts mentioned above that some projects presentations etc. are just hard to put an exactgrade to some teachers choose to use a rubric like say out of a possible maximum mark of 20, 10 marks are for content, 5 for presentation (pics, cleanliness etc.), 3 marks for correct use of grammar and 2 marks for organization. When a rubric is used it limits te chance of bias and favoritism and also allows the person/group who presented the project/presentation to see where they went wrong and fell down in the marking scheme.