R-Score (CRC score)?

[Ultima]

What is it? I got my R-scores for the hell of it (scores from 0 to 50), my average score was 28.633.
So is this good or bad?
I had a few bad ones (mainly where I did the same or a couple percentage points lower in class) which were 20-25. I had some good ones too, 30-35.

I looked up how they're calculated and apparently they use your high-school marks for part of it (which seems pretty fvcking dumb to me, but whatever), but what do the numbers themselves mean??? At Concordia university they have this program that needs a min of 27 R-Score or a GPA of 3.3 to get in. I dunno wtf a GPA is either though

 

[Ultima]

^

 

[Rakkis]

Don't know what an R-score is.

But as GPA is calculated like this:

A = 4.0 grade points
B = 3.0 "
C= 2.0 "
D = 1.0 "
F = 0.0 "

you multiply you grade points by the number of units a class was worth. add those up. then divide by the total number of units to get your GPA (grade point average).

Ex:
you are taking 2 classes worth 6 units each and get the following grades:
math A
history C

so: (4 * 6 + 2 * 6 ) / (6+6) = 3.0 (your gpa)

most schools give 0.3 more/less for a "minus" or "plus" grade letter.
some schools use a 10-0 scale instead of a 4-0.

I'm surprised you're this old and not know how to calculate GPA.

 

[Ultima]

Thanks
I didn't know cause I don't live in the US



<< Don't know what an R-score is.

But as GPA is calculated like this:

A = 4.0 grade points
B = 3.0 "
C= 2.0 "
D = 1.0 "
F = 0.0 "

you multiply you grade points by the number of units a class was worth. add those up. then divide by the total number of units to get your GPA (grade point average).

Ex:
you are taking 2 classes worth 6 units each and get the following grades:
math A
history C

so: (4 * 6 + 2 * 6 ) / (6+6) = 3.0 (your gpa)

most schools give 0.3 more/less for a "minus" or "plus" grade letter.
some schools use a 10-0 scale instead of a 4-0.

I'm surprised you're this old and not know how to calculate GPA. >>

 

[Ultima]

So is A 90-100?
B 80-90?
etc.

 

[Ultima]

^^^

 

[Rakkis]

Oh I see. Silly selfish American.

Usually yeah. But a lot of classes are adjusted to fit the grades of most of the class. Using a distribution curve. So sometimes A = 80-100
Depends on how hard the class was and everyone's grades. (in college)

I haven't heard of grade school classes beign curved.

 

[Ultima]

ah...
our grades aren't curved, but we have that R-Score thing. Higher it is the better... damn, stupid quebec, has to make things so complicated.

 

[BrunoPuntzJones]

<< So is A 90-100?
B 80-90?
etc. >>

Usually, but it's really up to the instructor. I've been in classes where an A is 95-100, and a B is 80-94. Another prof had 50-70 as a D, 71-79 a C, and then like you said. Most I've taken follow the
90-100 A
80-89 B
70-79 C
60-69 D
<60 F

The major variation is 70-74 is a D, 75-79 a C, <70 an F (which IMO is what it should be).

 

[Ultima]

Well those are normalized grades you're talking about right?
There's one class I only got 74%, but it was one of the highest grades in the class. I don't think I can calculate my GPA period since i don't know my 'normalized' results, I only have the R-score which also takes into account your high-school marks (extremely gay imo)..