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Offline aldo_14

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What the feck is Grade Point Average?
Is it some merkin thing?

 

Offline Martinus

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What the feck is Grade Point Average?
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Offline aldo_14

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What the feck is Grade Point Average?
No, I was filling in an application form for Motorola.

The most ****ing irritating thing I've ever seen, may i add.

 

Offline Hippo

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What the feck is Grade Point Average?
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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Re: What the feck is Grade Point Average?
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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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Offline aldo_14

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What the feck is Grade Point Average?
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.

 

Offline Rictor

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What the feck is Grade Point Average?
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.)

 

Offline vyper

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What the feck is Grade Point Average?
He means upper band and lower band As. Ja?
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Offline Liberator

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What the feck is Grade Point Average?
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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Offline aldo_14

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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.)


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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.

 

Offline Stealth

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What the feck is Grade Point Average?
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 :-/

 

Offline Ace

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What the feck is Grade Point Average?
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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Offline aldo_14

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What the feck is Grade Point Average?
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)

 

Offline Hippo

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What the feck is Grade Point Average?
Meh... My GPA is just depressing

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2.225 on a 4.0 scale
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Offline Corsair

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What the feck is Grade Point Average?
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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Offline Taristin

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What the feck is Grade Point Average?
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Originally posted by Hippo
Meh... My GPA is just depressing

Spoiler:
2.225 on a 4.0 scale
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I knew someone would post theirs sooner or later.

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Offline Liberator

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What the feck is Grade Point Average?
Cheer up hippo, I'm right there with ya:

Spoiler:
has a 2.32 on a 4.0 scale.
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Where I fought in many guises,
Many names, but always me.

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Offline Hippo

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What the feck is Grade Point Average?
Yes! :p
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Offline phreak

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What the feck is Grade Point Average?
Spoiler:

HS: 3.9 on a 4.0 scale
Uni: 3.857 on a 4.0 scale (going into junior year)
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What the feck is Grade Point Average?
Trust the US to make something more complicated than it should be...
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