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Is it some merkin thing?
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[color=66ff00]You been watching StrongBad? :)
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No, I was filling in an application form for Motorola.
The most ****ing irritating thing I've ever seen, may i add.
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Its a number from 1 to 5 with your average grades... A is a 4, B is a 3, C is a 2, D is a 1, and F is a 0. You average all your final grades from high schoo or college, not both together, and you get a number, usually between 0 and 4, only over 4 if you take college level class in high school.
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Originally posted by aldo_14
Is it some merkin thing?
Yep...some American thing for sure. Its been explained and you hear it as a point of achievement but eh... :)
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Y'see, college Us is entirely different from College in the UK for one thing.... plus it was asking for GPA on university qualifications, and you don't get a banded grade for those anyways.
Just supremely irritating... that and I really hate these application forms that ask for a grade and list 'A*', which wasn't even a ****ing grade when I was at school.
Grr.
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A wasn't a grade? How does that work?
Personally, I prefer a percentage grade, it so much less vague (though in my case, there are certain advantages to vagueness.)
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He means upper band and lower band As. Ja?
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I don't know about elsewhere but GPA in the Alabama College System are so FUBARed that the students can't figure it for themselves because you're actual grade doesn't have anything to do with it. You earn X number of quality points for each successfully completed credit hour of study and then they work some kind of magic equation to figure the GPA instead of the normal way which involves calculating an average of all the grades and then dividing by 20. 100 -> 5.0 ect.
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Originally posted by Rictor
A wasn't a grade? How does that work?
Personally, I prefer a percentage grade, it so much less vague (though in my case, there are certain advantages to vagueness.)
Originally posted by vyper
He means upper band and lower band As. Ja?
Aye; The grades listed are F (and some other wierd letters), then D, C, B, A and A*.
Back in my time, there was no 'A*' grade. Otherwise I'd have one.
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keep in mind that there's different GPA scales. you can have GPA on a 4.0, 6.0, etc.
my college uses a 4.0. high school used a 6.0. it's confusing :-/
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Most places on the west coast use a 0-4 scale.
Also GPAs are overated. In order to get into a master's/doctorate program you only need to have above a 3.0+ GPA. So all of the kids and parents who freak out about not having perfect 4.0s are idiots.
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And shouldn't most universities, etc, be letting people in based on their ability at the core subject of their (applied to study) degree, anyways?
(there's a UCAS 'point' system in the UK which I think has some similarity to this GPA malarky, but normally the key qualifiication is grades in a particular subject; i.e. i needed at least a B in Maths and Computing for my course IIRC)
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Meh... My GPA is just depressing
2.225 on a 4.0 scale
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My high school is on a 4.0 scale....but you can get above a 4.0 if you take AP classes. Technically, if you took all APs, you could have a 5.0, however, the school only lets us take 3 APs max (special permission for 4, it rarely happens) so the top GPA would be 4.6.
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Originally posted by Hippo
Meh... My GPA is just depressing
2.225 on a 4.0 scale
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I knew someone would post theirs sooner or later.
<-- Has a 3.69 on a 4.0 Scale
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Cheer up hippo, I'm right there with ya:
has a 2.32 on a 4.0 scale.
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Yes! :p
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HS: 3.9 on a 4.0 scale
Uni: 3.857 on a 4.0 scale (going into junior year)
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Trust the US to make something more complicated than it should be...
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Well, why make it easy?
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3.9 on a 4.0 scale, at least right now (the semester is not over).
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Originally posted by Clave
Trust the US to make something more complicated than it should be...
How is it complicated? You get the number based on an A - F grade. It only gets weird with inflated GPA. Or if you're from the South.
Fear my 3.8!!!!
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Originally posted by Knight Templar
How is it complicated? You get the number based on an A - F grade. It only gets weird with inflated GPA. Or if you're from the South.
It is complicated when you look at it - you go from an exam percentage (I presume), to a alphabetic grade (a-f), to a number (0-4), to an average. You're actually reducing the accuracy / precision of the mark each time.
If you're going for an average, why not just go for an average percentage?
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Because then people might realise their actual level of ability.
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that doesn't sound so bad. in nsw australia, for high school they get you to do subjects which are assigned unit numbers, then they take your marks for each subject, scale them (which means move them up or down according to your school's performance compared to other schools in that subject) and then they average all your scaled marks. which means you can never work out your own marks because it's based on how well everyone _else_ does.
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Which sounds absolute ****e.
If I may say. :D
*proudly waves little scottish flag and points to education system*
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So you are screwed if you get stuck in a class of geniuses?
What happens when everybody does a subject perfectly? Do they all get the average score?
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Originally posted by vyper
Which sounds absolute ****e.
If I may say. :D
*proudly waves little scottish flag and points to education system*
Mind you, they scale the higher grading bands based upon performance, so that they always get the same approximate numbers of people in each band.........
****ing stupid system, that is. Especially as you have to actively go and seek out your percentage marks.
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Originally posted by icespeed
that doesn't sound so bad. in nsw australia, for high school they get you to do subjects which are assigned unit numbers, then they take your marks for each subject, scale them (which means move them up or down according to your school's performance compared to other schools in that subject) and then they average all your scaled marks. which means you can never work out your own marks because it's based on how well everyone _else_ does.
So you go to bed every night praying that someone, somewhere didn't upset the apple cart grade wise?
That's like a bad joke. A bad joke that obscures the actuality of how well your educational system is functioning.
Kind of like the old one about the Liberal/Democrat guidelines for teaching math to 1st graders. The teacher asks the class what 2+2 is. She calls on one of the students and they answer 3. Instead of correcting the student and teaching them the proper way to determine the solution, the guidelines emphasize feelings and self-respect over actual learning and knowledge, so the teacher patronizes the student and tells them that it's okay and if they think that's right then it's right.
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Nobody said democracy and liberalism was perfect... :p
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The system Icespeed's describing is the same as the one we have here (Western Australia). It's not designed to compare your personal marks with the rest of the class, but your classes mark with the rest of the state's. The idea is that it balances out the harder/lighter marking teachrs so that no teacher can award 95% to everyone in his or her class and skew the entire system.
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Originally posted by Raa
I knew someone would post theirs sooner or later.
<-- Has a 3.69 on a 4.0 Scale
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3.992 on a 4.0 Scale...
Damn the Ap Calculus.
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*still has lowest gpa*
Here's something to chew on: I got an above average score on the SAT's (1150), and have grades of OVER 100% in science classes, for the last 3 years... SO how bad do you think i'm going in other classes :D ...
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How can you get grades of over 100%?
Oh.... maybe it's your math that drags you down then, eh? :p
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Well, they only get recorded as hundreds... And my math averages aren't TOO bad... (C range usually)
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Hippo your like me. I took the ACT (which is i guess like the SAT out here), and score a 35 out of 36 on the math and science areas, yet sucked it up on the English portion, which means if I could do english, I'd be getting some big time scholarship offers :(.
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Originally posted by aldo_14
If you're going for an average, why not just go for an average percentage?
They do that for individual classes fine, unless you have a teacher who doesn't like grading by numbers. They give you a grade point average though because it would sound dumn to say "I have a 95% percent in school." I know it's the same thing as a GPA, is just doesn't sound as awkward / dumb.
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Originally posted by Knight Templar
They do that for individual classes fine, unless you have a teacher who doesn't like grading by numbers. They give you a grade point average though because it would sound dumn to say "I have a 95% percent in school." I know it's the same thing as a GPA, is just doesn't sound as awkward / dumb.
Awkward? It's a percentile; It's only 2 bloody digits! (3 if you're good...)
:D
They (and I mean education in general) should have abandoned grading and went onto percentage marks a long time ago. It's just that much more explanatory.