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[Apath]

Some schools take into account +'s and -'s when calculating your GPA, but as someone who only ever got A-'s in college and who's school switched over to a system where +'s and -'s are taken into consideration on your GPA... I'm happy with how things worked out.

I hate the +/- system. It's very easy to scrape by with a 90. Getting over a 93 makes for a very slim margin of error.

If I remember correctly, at my high school it was:

A: Exceeds Expectations (100-93)
B: Above Average (92-85)
C: Average (84-77)
D: Below Average (76-69)
F: Fail (68-below)

Which is the biggest bullshit because you'd think that from a scale from 0-100 that the average would be 50 when in reality it was between a 77 and 84.

It's not bullshit when you consider that a 50 means you only know half the material. 80% being considered average is a little high though..

 

[AniHawk]

if it's any consolation, as long as you do well in school in general, none of this shit matters once you land your first job.

 

[Joates]

While I see where you're coming from, tough shit, you could have gotten an A. Didn't see it mentioned but were there extra credit opportunities.

 

[Ala Alba]

Not as bad as getting an 'A-' and having it count against your GPA and then getting an 'A+' and having it do absolutely nothing.

This. So much this.

I've gotten so many worthless A+ grades, and then the A- grades screw me out of a 4.0 GPA.

 

[Codeblue]

i think medical professions should be an A or nothing kind of field.



this. i dont want a B or B+ doctor. he might only be at most 90% right.

You are insane if you think it's possible to get through any sort of medical professional school with a 4.0.

Edit: I made a 92.5% in a dental course where a 93% is an A and still got a B so I can relate. All you can do is focus on knowing your stuff and not caring about how you look on paper unless you want to endure further school for whatever reason.

 

[Ezalc]

Love the grading system in Brasil. 1-10. Midterms are usually worth from 6-10 points with homework being whatever else is left which is up to the professor. At the end of the semester you take your grades for whatever you got on the midterm+any homework. If you add both grades up and divide it by 2 and it's more than 7 you don't have to take finals. On the other hand if it's less you do have to take finals and all you need to pass the class is whatever you got plus the score you need on your finals to get 10. So if your mean is 6.5 for the semester you need 3.5 on the final, which is a test worth 10 points, to pass the class. Oh if you get 4 or less for the whole semester you fail the class automatically.

 

[seldead]

Yeah, where I'm at and most other Australian unis, the marking system looks something like:
85-High Distinction
75-Distinction
65-Credit
50-Pass
<50-Fail

Baring in mind these aren't raw marks and scaling is meant to occur to create a bell curve around 60 as the average. I failed one of my econometrics units in raw marks but ended up with a 63 just because everyone else did so badly as well. Does this mean I was passed despite apparently knowing less than half the course? Perhaps, but that shit was hard and my results in it should reflect my success compared to other people not how much of an arbitrary amount of information I completed correctly.
I know that some Oz unis use a GPA but mine doesn't for the reason that 74&#8800;65 so why should your marks reflect them being the same? Instead it uses a weighted average mark, which is the average mark in the unit of study completed, weighted according to the credit point value of the unit, which I reckon makes a lot more sense.

 

[Phoenix]

if it's any consolation, as long as you do well in school in general, none of this shit matters once you land your first job.

Yep, because if you focussed more on your grades than learning and being able to derive from what you learned - it was really all just a waste of time anyway.

 

[shadowsdarknes]

Yeah, where I'm at and most other Australian unis, the marking system looks something like:
85-High Distinction
75-Distinction
65-Credit
50-Pass
<50-Fail

Baring in mind these aren't raw marks and scaling is meant to occur to create a bell curve around 60 as the average. I failed one of my econometrics units in raw marks but ended up with a 63 just because everyone else did so badly as well. Does this mean I was passed despite apparently knowing less than half the course? Perhaps, but that shit was hard and my results in it should reflect my success compared to other people not how much of an arbitrary amount of information I completed correctly.
I know that some Oz unis use a GPA but mine doesn't for the reason that 74&#8800;65 so why should your marks reflect them being the same? Instead it uses a weighted average mark, which is the average mark in the unit of study completed, weighted according to the credit point value of the unit, which I reckon makes a lot more sense.

Don't forget finals are mandatory. Friggin stupid rule, man. I studied at Bond Uni which is apparently one of the most distinguished schools in Australia, however I found it to be a breeze. So easy in fact that I passed two courses before taking the final which I was stocked about. Except I ended up failing both courses despite earning a 50 because taking the final is a requirement.

Earned a distinction in marketing, and completely bombed accounting. Could have easily attained two HD's, a D, and a fail if I applied myself (gotta fail at least one class abroad haha).

I don't like the system.

 

[Thebox]

Nursing school 93% is an A, below 79% and you fail. Not a single person in my med-surg 2 class got an A. I ended up with a 88% a B, which is fine with me as most didn't even get that. Our final was 1/3 of our grade.

Now last semester in med-surg 1, I got a 92%, pretty pissed about that. No one got an A in that class either.

 

[squidyj]

they're ripping you off man.

You have no idea. The midterm for that class was brutal.

 

[TheSchwab_7]

in HIGH SCHOOL?!?! That's kinda crazy

Yeah. I'm in college now and we use the 100-90, 90-80, etc. scale. It's easier to get an A in college than in HS.

Actually nevermind cause I forgot about all the completion homework that helped raise your grade.

 

[seldead]

Don't forget finals are mandatory. Friggin stupid rule, man. I studied at Bond Uni which is apparently one of the most distinguished schools in Australia, however I found it to be a breeze. So easy in fact that I passed two courses before taking the final which I was stocked about. Except I ended up failing both courses despite earning a 50 because taking the final is a requirement.

Earned a distinction in marketing, and completely bombed accounting. Could have easily attained two HD's, a D, and a fail if I applied myself (gotta fail at least one class abroad haha).

I don't like the system.

Ahh dude I can totally empathise, this actually just happened to me getting my marks back the other week. I did a bludgey music unit because all the maths in my degree was getting me down, breezed through, already had a credit before doing the final essay and decided to give it a miss to study more for my macro final. Marks come back, absent fail in MUSC1504, you don't even get a mark, its just a blank spot where the number should be. Feels bad, lesson learnt.

 

[GaimeGuy]

Damn America has tough grading rules. Most schools in Sweden have C 50%, B 75%, A 85-90%.

75% for C? fuck that shit (we don't have D)

It's inconsistent, actually. When I was in college, grades varied from professor to professor.

My physics professor, for instance, did not give partial credit. A problem was either correct or it wasn't (Makes sense TBH, since if you get the physics correct, the math falls into place.). There were five quizzes, a midterm, and a final. You could drop your lowest score of the 5 quizzes, though. Each quiz had 3 problems and the midterms/finals had 6-8. You could drop your lowest scoring quiz (and there was homework, too, though it accounted for something like 10-20% of your overall grade)

The grading scales for the physics courses of course adjusted with the difficulty of the problems and the overall class performance (They were honors classes of ~80-100 students), and you weren't generally expected to ace an exam (His logic was that if you design an exam that is easy enough for a student to get 100% on, you can't gauge the depth of their true understanding... they could understand the material 10x as much as another student who got 100%, for instance. The limits of their understanding would be unknown.).

There were a few times I got a 0 on a quiz in the multiple semesters I had him as a professor. Definitely wrecked me for a bit, but I persevered.

Great teacher, hilarious guy, although his jokes could get a little cringe-worthy at times XD