What Are Your Average Grades?

[Explodingsims 3]

Lets see, My GPA is 4.3 And I mostly make A's with some B's (Being in spanish)
Oh well...Can't win em' all..

[hym 358]

You raise something I've always wondered about. How does one get a 4.3 GPA? Even if I ace everything my university professors throw at me, I'll still only end up with a 4.0. Someone care to explain?

[BlondeTwiggy 43]

I'm a junior in high school, get mostly A's and a few B's. 

I used to make all 95% or higher, but that was before high school, lol. 

In 9th grade I kinda started letting my grades slip (compared to what I was getting before, anyway). 

So I actually could be getting all A's if I wanted to, I guess.

Freshman year I did get a 99 percentile on a national standardized test & also won a math competition at my school.  So I guess that makes me kind of smart lol. 

Duke:  Thanks, we're all a bunch of nerds    No, just kidding.  I love being a nerd.  

[octaves 4]

Wow.  81 is my grade nine average for the first semester.  I have two more terms to go (one semester) and let's hope that goes as good.

I feel stupid around you perfect grade students

[beebs 129]

Originally posted by: hym You raise something I've always wondered about. How does one get a 4.3 GPA? Even if I ace everything my university professors throw at me, I'll still only end up with a 4.0. Someone care to explain?quote>

Likely there are different systems for GPA.

And with a bit of research, I figured out my GPA equivalent for my average: 3.0. (In Alberta, that's what it would be anyways.)

[ilikehotdogsalot 308]

Originally posted by: hym You raise something I've always wondered about. How does one get a 4.3 GPA? Even if I ace everything my university professors throw at me, I'll still only end up with a 4.0. Someone care to explain?quote>

If you take Honors, a B in that class is worth an A, and if you get an A, it's worth more, which gives you a higher GPA. I'm not sure about AP classes since they're not available to me. I had a 4.25 last semester because I had one Honors class since I had to take my electives first, this semester I have 3, and if I get A's, My GPA will be raised to 4.75. I just say I have a 4.0 though, because some states don't care about this.

[rugar12 0]

High School - 3.34

ITT-Tech (2 Years) - 3.50

Community College (Currently attending) - 4.00

[coolotter88 2]

high schools vary in calculating GPA, some can go as high as 5.0, my school goes from 0 to 4.5

[LarksTonguesInAspic 28]

Originally posted by: TV-VCR I'm in 9th homeschool. My mom has averaged me as a B. B - Science, A - Language Arts, B - Social Studies, B - Math. I also passed the big test in 8th homeschool with a B average on it.

Funny how, before being homeschooled my grades were generally Cs and Ds, and most of the stuff they were teaching me in 7th was 6th grade material. It was difficult to catch up in 8th homeschool. Just proves how much of a crap education system Ehmurikkuh has.quote>

 

Colleges have started to look for home-schooled students, as they typically are beyond their public-schooled peers. I know several families that home-school large families, and they are producing some excellent results, including kids starting college programs while their peers are in sophomore year. It's not for everyone, and requires a saint's measure of patience and determination for the parents that choose this route.

[Explodingsims 3]

Hym- It's possible to get something over 4.0 if you take Honors Classes...I take 3, so thats how you get a 4.3.

[Abc987 3]

All of my scores this semester:

98

98

96

95 (Math... And I did amazing the second half of the semester too! All scores above 90!!! Grr...)

106 (Ahh, Ms. Welch makes it so easy to look like a genius...)

[Codythemonkey 0]

I've had A's and B's since 6th grade (Almost all A's in 8th). This year (9th grade 1st quarter) I got an A+ in Business, A in French, A- in English, and A in Home Improvement. I just finished my final exams but our report cards don't come out 'till the 2nd week of Feb or something..I have to look again. All I know about the 2nd quarter is that I got another A- in English and a B+ on the final exam.

[Za 164]

9th grade and I had a 100.0 in the first quarter, but now I *only* have a 98.7 (darn AP W.H. midterm)... the funny thing is I'm probably not even tenth in the class.  

[Smarty218 2]

My entire life has been As. I've got a current overall average of 99.8% (they don't call me smarty for nothing) in classes that are 9th grade, 10th or college level. (I'm in 8th right now, but not taking any 8th grade courses, I don't see why they don't let me skip a grade, unless gym is really that much of an important grade)

[Duke87 1,070]

Originally posted by: coolotter88 s.i.X's school suffers from grade inflation. he'll realize that a 71 is a C- when the colleges scale down his grades.quote>

Well, in college it varies from class to class and professor to professor. I've had classes where a 71 would be a B-, and classes where it would be a C (not C-). I've also had professors grade on a curve, thus meaning it could even end up being an A if the class as a whole doesn't do too well. But that's rather typical in college, especially since the transcript only lists letter grades, not your score in the class. I've seen it done in high school, but it's less common. And since there you generally need to report the number, the method is to apply a curve to alter the numbers, not one just to alter the grades. My Physics midterm was graded according to the formula 103-2x, x being the number of questions wrong (there were 45 questions)

[Something_started 5]

everyone is saying a's and b's, lets just say i'm not saying what my grades are, why? because i should either be doing homework or a project due in 3 days. i might need to get off of the internet. later yall!

(not good grades as of now)

[GingerBlokey 30]

At GCSE (10th Grade)?

Well my grades were A* A* A* A A A A A A A B C

I would say that makes my average A/A*

At A Level? (11th Grade)

I have only done one piece of work that came back lower than a B and 90% of my work is at A.

[pickled_pig 7]

If you take Advanced Placement or International Bacculerate at my school you actually get a 6.0 weighted GPA for an A earned.  For honors classes it's a 5.0 and for "standard" classes (which, outside of electives, nobody really takes unless they're forced into them) it's a 4.0.

I'd have to agree (with the comment by Duke on page 1) that the sample of people on this forum is unstatistical and suffers from some sort of bias. Just because this is an internet forum there are going to be some significant changes in what the "mean" of the sample is compared to the mean of the population, mostly because the "normal" people who get GPAs you'd "expect" use the Internet mainly to socialize with friends they know in real life using Facebook (most likely), Myspace (less likely), or something similar.

Plus, Simcity's a rather nerdy game.  Ask people on a Halo forum or a Guitar Hero forum  or (gasp) a DDR forum what their grades are and the results should differ significantly.

Anyway... now that exams are over, I got a 96 in AP Stats, 97 in Latin (only a guess - the official grade is only an "A" now that I finished the course), 98 in AP Calculus AB, 96 in German, 97 in AP Human Geography, 95 in AP English Lit, and a 99 in Theatre.  All of which is scary.

[ky72x 13]

I'm in 10th grade, and so far I'm doing quite well. Last semester I got straight A's, something that I had not accomplished since 8th grade. In my freshman year, I slacked off on my work and got half B's and A's once. Currently, I'm trying my best to keep my good grades up!

[wir3d 2]

sorry Voar Tok i just havent been in this topic for a while, but the purpose of the grades is to how smart simtropolis people are. Very smart.

[SimRabbit 48]

my current gpa is 2.5. not really good eh?

[wir3d 2]

not it's shnot

[Rymac91 15]

I'm homeschooled but I'm now taking a single course at my community college. Spring was the requirement for all computer courses(CIS 107 Introduction to Operating Systems), I got a B+ on that(B, F, B+ and A on exams and papers). In the Fall I took another computer course(CIS 225 Troubleshooting Operating Systems) I got a B on that (B, C, B, and A on exams and papers). My mum forced me to pick ethier English or Algebra, I choose Algebra [which is really boring and confusing(but I'm quite lazy and I don't work well without a calculator)]. So far, my first test was a F and my next one is tommorow. I'm betting for a D, but I'm doubtful.

[wir3d 2]

cool im homeschooled too

[M-SIL 2]

I find it very strange that 85% of the people here make mostly A's. Just to add some balance here, the grades I usually get in my courses are mainly C's and D's. Also, my overall g.p.a is probably a 2.0.

[wir3d 2]

well it just showes how many "smart" people play sim city.

[BlondeTwiggy 43]

Originally posted by: manticorefan

Originally posted by: TV-VCR I'm in 9th homeschool. My mom has averaged me as a B. B - Science, A - Language Arts, B - Social Studies, B - Math. I also passed the big test in 8th homeschool with a B average on it.

Funny how, before being homeschooled my grades were generally Cs and Ds, and most of the stuff they were teaching me in 7th was 6th grade material. It was difficult to catch up in 8th homeschool. Just proves how much of a crap education system Ehmurikkuh has.quote>

 

Colleges have started to look for home-schooled students, as they typically are beyond their public-schooled peers. I know several families that home-school large families, and they are producing some excellent results, including kids starting college programs while their peers are in sophomore year. It's not for everyone, and requires a saint's measure of patience and determination for the parents that choose this route.quote>

I also am homeschooled, I used to go to a "regular" school (well, a private school that was supposedly harder than regular public schools...yeah right), and homeschooling has been a lot more challenging.  But I needed a challenge...or so my teachers kept telling me.  Anyway, I enjoy it, it has its pros and cons obviously, but I think it's helped me focus better on my schoolwork

[AceofSpades 1]

Im in 8th grade honors and I get like Bs and Cs and sometimes As. I've only gotten one D before on a report card and my parents ate me alive haha.

[wir3d 2]

haha. If i got and F i would get banned for life from everything.

[AceofSpades 1]

yeah but if I get an F on a test I normally just let it slip and not tell my parents...