I hate it when teachers use unfavorable grading scales

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Dumac

Dumac

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Ninjahedge said:
Ugh.


T, it does not matter. Colleges look at your GPA, not at your letter grade. You could have gotten a "Q" for all they care.
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GPA is a function of letter grades....and he is already in college?

the only thing that made it difficult for me, way back when, was when AP classes got a "6" for an A, the less advanced (I forgot the name) got a "5", and the regular got a "4". So even if you got an "A" in art, it did not matter because that was a "C" in physics. (I could not take things like art or choir for credit, I had to "audit" them or it would hurt my GPA).
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Sounds like a shitty system. My HS implemented something like a max number of higher scaled classes, so that it wasn't a weird challenge to shove as many AP or whatever kind of classes in as possible.

So do not worry about the letter scaling until it comes to the end. If an 85 means an A at the end of the year even though all your test papers said "B", so be it.
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This makes no sense. Tests should be curved as they go throughout the year. If you got B's on all your test, you should not get an A at the end, unless you have a shitty professor who doesn't curve until the very end.

Also, I think he is referring to his final grade for the course?
 
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Dumac

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TecHNooB said:
the best classes are the ones where the averages on exams are between 30-40 and the A is still an 85.
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I had one professor try to do that, but we reported her, and the grades were changed during the next semester.
 
Saint Nick

Saint Nick

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It's only unfavorable if you perform poorly. Study more and get the grade you deserve, rather than the grade you think you deserve.
 
biostud

biostud

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I like to give my students worse grades just to see their hopes and dreams diminish before my eyes :)
 
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piasabird

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GPA is Normally based on Grades not scores. This is the Normal way of computing the GPA. I scan College and High School transcripts all day. This is what I have seen as the Norm. I see no consistency in the computation of the points or what is considered an A/A+. There is no standard at all. Every school has their own standard and often it changes over time.

I see a lot of high school transcripts with a lot of D's on them. At college if you have D's on your high school classes they do not transfer. However, in some instances the grading is more liberal at some colleges like this:
(4.0 Based System)

0-59 = F Zero points
60-69 = D 1 Point
70-79 = C 2 Points
80-89 = B 3 Points
90-100 = A 4 Points
Points X Credits = Points earned
Credits X 4 = total possible points (4.0 Based System)
Points Earned / Total Points = GPA

Some schools have different calculations for A+ or A- etc.
Some schools have other calculations that add points for some Honor classes or harder classes.
Some schools offer some extra points for community service.

You can see that my somewhat liberal grading scheme may have grades in the C range that may be a D in high school. Normally it takes a grade of C or better to transfer a class or count it for credit or as a pre-requisite for a college course.
 
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piasabird

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I have seen all kinds of grading schemes for tests and assignments. For instance some teachers may just give everyone free points if a question is considered incorrect or it may have 2 possible answers that are considered correct if the question is challenged. So challenge the questions and your answers. Often a teach will make grading mistakes also. So add up your points. Some teachers will add up all the points and then base the final grade on a variety of variables. For instance a teacher could give you points for Points on assignments, Attendance, Participation, extra credit, Homework, Tests, Quizes. Then maybe they add up the total points and compare that to the totals.

I like teachers that if they show up and a lot of people are missing they have a quiz and give everyone present points for their name and date. I have also seen some medical field classes where if you miss more than 2 days or you miss even one day of clinicals, you receive an F. Then they started requiring a final comprehensive exit exam for some Math Classes. This always gets a few people that try to scate by with a low C. There are always some people who just refuse to do well in Math or English.
 
Bignate603

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Gibson486 said:
When you are in engineering, anything over a 3.8 is pretty equivalent to a 4.0 in my book.
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Anything 3.95 or greater rounds up to 4.0 anyways ;)

I graduated with a 3.83, I had one interviewer mention that that's the kind of GPA range they like. She said she always wonders what a person with a 4.0 had to give up in their life to pull it off.
 
OBLAMA2009

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one time when i was in college i had a prof who based her grades partly on class participation. it was a lecture so she would call on people from a class list. she called on me twice and both times i didnt answer because i didnt know the answer to the question. at the end of the semester i had the third highest number of points in the class but i got an A- in the course for flunking the class participation component of the grade. i was so peeved i took it to the department chair. a couple of months went by and every time i would stop by and ask his secretary about it she would say he couldnt decide what to do, but finally he changed my grade, but the whole episode was very stressful.
 
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