[Corsair]

Well, why make it easy?

[Deepblue]

3.9 on a 4.0 scale, at least right now (the semester is not over).

[Knight Templar]

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.

Spoiler:

Fear my 3.8!!!!

[aldo_14]

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?

[vyper]

Because then people might realise their actual level of ability.

[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.

[vyper]

Which sounds absolute ****e.

If I may say.

*proudly waves little scottish flag and points to education system*

[Ghostavo]

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?

[aldo_14]

Originally posted by vyper
Which sounds absolute ****e.

If I may say.

*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.

[Liberator]

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.

[vyper]

Nobody said democracy and liberalism was perfect...

[Black Wolf]

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.

[adwight]

Originally posted by Raa


I knew someone would post theirs sooner or later.

Spoiler:

<-- Has a 3.69 on a 4.0 Scale

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3.992 on a 4.0 Scale...

Damn the Ap Calculus.

[Hippo]

*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 ...

[aldo_14]

How can you get grades of over 100%?

Oh.... maybe it's your math that drags you down then, eh?

[Hippo]

Well, they only get recorded as hundreds... And my math averages aren't TOO bad... (C range usually)

[adwight]

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 .

[Knight Templar]

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.

[aldo_14]

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...)



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.