Poll: Americans, in high school what range of grades constituted an A for you?

[mitchafi]

Up until Grade 9 it was 94-100 A, 85-93 but starting 10th they changed it to just go by 10's since apparently that is how most other areas do it.

 

[nietsni3]

PA 90-100.

 

[mugs]

I'm going to have to go with north even though I don't know what latitude/longitude I live at... 94-100 was an A.

 

[ohtwell]

South - 90-100


: ) Amanda

 

[FuZoR]

i didnt get letter grades in High School... and all i remember was 65 was passing ;-) haha

 

[EyeMWing]

Originally posted by: FuZoR
i didnt get letter grades in High School... and all i remember was 65 was passing ;-) haha

So you went to one of those special schools?

 

[ViRGE]

Technically an A was 93+, and an A- 90-92, but our final marks didn't use any sort of fractional GPA, so 90+ was a 4, 80+ a 3, etc.

 

[mchammer187]

94-100 A

Delaware so i guess that is mid-atlantic or NE

 

[TheVrolok]

Man, they should set a standard. Schools in the south seem to grade harder than schools in the north. Maybe that's why schools in the south are all ranked at the bottom.

shrug, I know all the colleges that I applied to asked for the grading scale as well as the grades, so I'm sure colleges take all of this into account when comparing applicants.

My school district used 90-100 as an A, but one of the neighboring districts used 93-100. Here in eastern PA.

 

[DWW]

Hrm thought I'd add that in Ontario Canada, anything over 80 was an A when I was in high school heh.

 

[Chaotic42]

Originally posted by: DWW
Hrm thought I'd add that in Ontario Canada, anything over 80 was an A when I was in high school heh.

That answers a lot of questions...
😛

 

[b0mbrman]

Is an A- an A? If so, I want to change my answer

 

[Chaotic42]

Originally posted by: b0mbrman
Is an A- an A? If so, I want to change my answer

Yes.

We never had "A- and A and A+". It was just 95-100=A.

 

[DWW]

Originally posted by: Chaotic42

Originally posted by: DWW
Hrm thought I'd add that in Ontario Canada, anything over 80 was an A when I was in high school heh.

That answers a lot of questions...
😛

Our school curriculum is more difficult I've read
So a 95% in Canada is not a 95% in the USA 😛

 

[Chaotic42]

Originally posted by: DWW
Our school curriculum is more difficult I've read
So a 95% in Canada is not a 95% in the USA 😛

My HS was really easy. So is community college. I have a 100% in all of my classes except for one, in which I have a 98.

 

[Actaeon]

Old rules, I had these from Kindergarden to 9th grade or so...
A = 100-94
B = 93-85
C = 84-75
D = 74-65
F = 64-0

New rules (last 2-3 years of HS, i forgot)
A = 100-90
B = 90-80
C = 80-70
D = 70-60
F = 60-0

 

[vi edit]

Originally posted by: Tiamat
Upstate NY.
A: 95-100
A-: 90-94
B+: 87-89
B: 84-86
B-: 80-83
C+: 77-79
C: 74-76
C-: 70-73
D+: 67-69
D: 64-66
D-: 60-63
F: 0-59

That's what I had in Illinois.

 

[yhelothar]

so. cali
89.5% - 100%
Well on paper it's 90-100, but almost always, the teacher will round up if you get 89.5

 

[imported_theEman]

I'm going to Newport High School in Bellevue, WA (one of the top high schools in the US) and here's the grading scale for us:

90-100% - A
80-89% - B
70-79% - C
60-69% - D
Under 59% - F

 

[Garuda]

Your East/West/South descriptions are weird. Most people don't know the latitude/longitude of their cities.

May I suggest:

North-East: North of Mason-Dixon line (PA-MD border), East of Mississippi River.
South-East: South of Mason-Dixon line, East of Mississippi River
West: West of Mississippi River.

 

[bleeb]

someone beat this nerd with a stick.. WHO knows the longitudinal and lattitudinal coordinates of their skewls?? c'mon!

 

[slpaulson]

Wisconsin.
In most classes 90-100 was an A of sorts, but some classes were more like 93-100.
It depended on the teacher I guess.

 

[DurocShark]

At Rancho Alamitos HS in the 80's, an A was anything over 90% IIRC though a few teachers did 92% or 95% just to be mean.

😉

 

[amdskip]

A=100-92
B=91-83
C=82-74
D=73-65
F=64-0

In Illinois

 

[TwilightZone77]

93-100 here (SD)
93-95 A- (3.75 GP)
96-100 A (4.00 GP)

In middle school, though, I had a 94-100 A.