How do you calculate college GPA thats not American standard?

[john5220]

Say you take 4 courses but you failed 3 and passed 1.

And your GPA is 0.57 and the one subject you passed you got a C+

And the grading scheme goes from F, C, C+, B-, B, B+, A-, A, A+

how would you know what percentage makes what grades?
I know C is 50% and up because its the lowest score and you need atleast 50% else you fail.

A friend told me 77% is a B+

 

[MetalMat]

 

[john5220]

This is important

 

[chubbyfatazn]

Say you take 4 courses but you failed 3 and passed 1.

And your GPA is 0.57 and the one subject you passed you got a C+

And the grading scheme goes from F, C, C+, B-, B, B+, A-, A, A+

how would you know what percentage makes what grades?
I know C is 50% and up because its the lowest score and you need atleast 50% else you fail.

A friend told me 77% is a B+

How many credits/hours/credit hours/units/etc did each course count for? Where is he located?

What's the rest of the letter-grade-to-percentage scale? Eg

C: 50-54
C+: 55-59
B-: 60-64
B: 65-69
B+: 70-74
A-: 75-79
A: 80-100

http://www.wes.org/gradeconversionguide/index.asp

 

[john5220]

Hi each course is 3 credits, country is Trinidad

"A is usually 85 and up. B is from 70 to 84. C is 50 to 69" this is the message someone sent me. hmmm

 

[Belegost]

Say you take 4 courses but you failed 3 and passed 1.

And your GPA is 0.57 and the one subject you passed you got a C+

And the grading scheme goes from F, C, C+, B-, B, B+, A-, A, A+

how would you know what percentage makes what grades?
I know C is 50% and up because its the lowest score and you need atleast 50% else you fail.

A friend told me 77% is a B+

You could always just look on Bing (or Google if you're so inclined) I found the answer in the first link for the first search (convert letter grade to gpa)

http://www.collegeboard.com/html/academicTracker-howtoconvert.html

A+ 97-100 4.0

A 93-96 4.0

A- 90-92 3.7

B+ 87-89 3.3

B 83-86 3.0

B- 80-82 2.7

C+ 77-79 2.3

C 73-76 2.0

C- 70-72 1.7

D+ 67-69 1.3

D 65-66 1.0

E/F Below 65 0.0

 

[deadlyapp]

This partially helps him but he's not on the standard "US" grading scheme so the percentage corresponding to letter grade doesn't help him.

He needs to first determine what the percentage is for his letter grade (or ask the professor) and then correspond that percentage with a US GPA.

You could always just look on Bing (or Google if you're so inclined) I found the answer in the first link for the first search (convert letter grade to gpa)

http://www.collegeboard.com/html/academicTracker-howtoconvert.html

A+ 97-100 4.0

A 93-96 4.0

A- 90-92 3.7

B+ 87-89 3.3

B 83-86 3.0

B- 80-82 2.7

C+ 77-79 2.3

C 73-76 2.0

C- 70-72 1.7

D+ 67-69 1.3

D 65-66 1.0

E/F Below 65 0.0

 

[TuxDave]

Since all the courses were equal credit, failing three classes and getting a c+ will earn a gpa of 2.3/4=0.575. So congrats, he improved his gpa.

 

[john5220]

^ i really only failed 1 which was a Electrical Engineering course.

The other 2 I could not make it to write the exam so was automatic fail sadly

 

[Belegost]

This partially helps him but he's not on the standard "US" grading scheme so the percentage corresponding to letter grade doesn't help him.

He needs to first determine what the percentage is for his letter grade (or ask the professor) and then correspond that percentage with a US GPA.

Generally for college courses such a conversion is professor specific, or non-existent/meaningless in the case of courses graded on a curve. Usually the letter grade is used with an adjustment to the basic scale tailored to different institutions/countries.

 

[chubbyfatazn]

You have an unknown number x of GPA points. You have 12 units. Your GPA is a 0.57.

x / 12 units = 0.57. Solving for x you get 6.84 GPA points.

Since three of the courses contributed 0.0 GPA points we don't really care if you're on a 4.0-, 5.0-, or 269.0-point scale. Your 6.84 GPA points came from 3 units only. 6.84 / 3 = 2.28 == C+ GPA, which is pretty much what a C+ was worth at my uni (2.33).

Might have fucked up the calculations and I dunno what assumptions I'm making. I've been awake for the past 34 hours and still have at least 5 to go

edit: I assume your system is modeled somewhat after the UK's (Trinidad being a former crown colony) so you might wanna look into how they do it

You really need to rethink your commitments if you failed to even write two of the finals. You may not have failed the courses had you taken the finals, but that's not how the real world works - you still failed them. My GPA tanked after my first semester at uni and it took me going balls to the wall for the remaining 3.5 years to raise it from around a 2.5 to a 3.42. You've got a long way to go.

Also... you'd get a better explanation from your uni's advisers than from a forum filled with people predominately from the US

 

[BoomerD]

http://www.classbase.com/Countries/Trinidad-and-Tobago/Grading-System

Grading Scales:
Post-secondary
Grade Scale US Grade Notes
A+ 90.00 - 100.00 A+
A 85.00 - 89.99 A
A- 80.00 - 84.99 A-
B+ 77.00 - 79.99 B+
B 73.00 - 76.99 B
B- 70.00 - 72.99 B-
C+ 67.00 - 69.99 C+
C 63.00 - 66.99 C
C- 60.00 - 62.99 C-
D+ 55.00 - 59.99 D+
D 50.00 - 54.99 D Minimal Pass
E 45.00 - 49.99 F
F 0.00 - 44.99 F

 

[chubbyfatazn]

http://www.classbase.com/Countries/Trinidad-and-Tobago/Grading-System

Obligatory notice: I might be wrong on the below. Making a ton of assumptions and I don't know how the British system works.

I'd guess he goes to The University of the West Indies since their grading system matches what the OP posted. A C+ in the Faculty of Engineering corresponds to a 2.3 GPA, so roughly what I calculated above.

http://www.nafsa.org/_/File/_/ges/Trinidad_Tobago.pdf

Using the GPA calculator the Engineering department there provides (http://sta.uwi.edu/eng/faculty/GPACalculator.asp) and plugging in the values for Level 1 courses we get a GPA of 0.575 - pretty much what the OP told us.

Do I win?

And now back to my job now that the last test just finished. Fuck me

 

[cabri]

After the first couple of jobs, no one should care about the GPA.

Also, many US colleges will allow you to retake the course and erase the lower grade (up to a limit of retakes)

 

[Carson Dyle]

Say you take 4 courses but you failed 3 and passed 1.

And your GPA is 0.57 and the one subject you passed you got a C+

That's correct. Using the chart above (from collegeboard.com) the C+ is worth 2.3 out of 4.0. If each of the four courses was 3 credits, you'd calculate that as:

((2.3 * 3) + (0.0 * 3) + (0.0 * 3) + (0.0 * 3)) / 12 = 0.575