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Just wondering what other skiers finished the semester with, I find it hard to do homework when you can ski. I finished with a 3.7 and managed to ski around 3 times a week. Don't know how but I did. WBU
My university goes by percentages so im not sure what this comes out to.....maybe like a 3.98?
How did you get an A in a class where your grade was an 86?
My undergrad GPA was pretty good. My grad school GPA is slightly worse but I'm trying to care less. I think people with advanced degrees who list their grad school GPA on their CV are trying too hard (watch, this'll be me in five years).
mirozHow did you get an A in a class where your grade was an 86?
My undergrad GPA was pretty good. My grad school GPA is slightly worse but I'm trying to care less. I think people with advanced degrees who list their grad school GPA on their CV are trying too hard (watch, this'll be me in five years).
Our grading system works that anywhere from 85-89 is an A. This corresponds to a 3.9 on the 4.0 scale.
Barefootin_Fiendthis has to be the softest, most pushover grading scale I've ever seen.
Not necessarily. Low grading schemes with hard tests make for a far better metric of a students ability than an A+ boundary of 95%.
Here (UK) the grading works like: A (first class)=70%, B (upper second)=60%, C (lower second)=50%, D (third)=45%, pass=40%, anything lower is a fail. A gpa in the A region corresponds to 4.0, B is somewhere between 3.2 and 3.8, others are lower (obviously).
It isn't a pushover system to have low boundaries, because our tests are often ridiculously hard and impossible to revise for. You can't get over 70% just by remembering everything, you have to actually be smart. Only the top 15% on my course usually get an A, but because the boundaries are not moderated (there are good and bad years) this number changes.
Personally I think all exams throughout school should be like this. The people that do well should be the intelligent, resourceful people who can apply their knowledge. The people who do well at the moment are the ones who do the most past papers and learn how to pass tests/ answer questions the best, and this isn't a measure of how good you are at the subject.
mirozHow did you get an A in a class where your grade was an 86?
My undergrad GPA was pretty good. My grad school GPA is slightly worse but I'm trying to care less. I think people with advanced degrees who list their grad school GPA on their CV are trying too hard (watch, this'll be me in five years).
This is how my school is. Its far less competitive than undergrad because we dont need to be better than anyone to advance to the next school.
Nobody seems to be killing themselves to get an A. If it happens great but the students with Cs will graduate and get the same jobs.
got a 2.9 my first semester at college which isnt bad considering how much i dicked around. this semester im actually trying though and i feel like im failing everything even though we havent even had any graded stuff handed back. thanks anxiety
When I was in highschool I had a horrible gpa, and I graduated via a drug counselors reference, and my principal being an ok guy. I'm seriously hoping when I save enough money to go back to school, I take it more seriously.
Fucking up highschool was not my best move thus far lmfao.
