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One more thread on grading and GPA


Ibn Abbas

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It seems from the little that I have read on the internet so far about grading in US universities, the system is as follows:

 

A+ 4.0

A 4.0

A- 3.7

 

B+ 3.3

B 3.0

B- 2.7

 

and so on...

 

If this is the case, wouldn't students who have made the effort of getting A+'s instead of A's be unnecessarily penalized because their GPA would end up being the same as that of the latter?

 

My undergraduate degree is from a school where the system is like:

A 4.0

B+ 3.5

B 3.0

C+ 2.5

 

and so on...

 

...and my graduate school has the following system:

A+ 6.0

A 5.5

A- 5.0

 

B+ 4.5

B 4.0

B- 3.5

 

and so on...

 

My undergrad GPA is 3.34 and my Qualifying Year GPA (at Carleton) is 5.81. So where on earth does that put me? :hmm:

 

Why the hell can't all universities meet at Kyoto or Geneva or somewhere like that and fix up a universal standard? Why all the pain? :mad:

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