In Canada, each school seems to have a different grading system, ranging from a 4.0 scale to a 12 point scale. But oddly enough, an American 4.0 scale is different from a Canadian one. Can someone explain to me the American 4.0 GPA scale?

Can you include...

Percent Range
Letter Grade
Number Grade (out of 4)


Thanks!
Juny


---> P.S considering an American school for Masters after undergrad.

Generally...

90%-100% -> A -> 4.0
80%-89% -> B -> 3.0-3.9
70%-79% -> C -> 2.0-2.9
60%-69% -> D -> 1.0-1.9

The simplest explanation is that for each class you get an A, B, C, D, or F. Each is worth a certain number of points. Sometimes classes vary the percentage range, but in the end all that matters is your points, or your letter grade, as given by the professor:
A=4
B=3
C=2
D=1
F=0
For your GPA, the school just averages all your grades, so if I have 5 classes and I get 3 As, a B, and a C, then they just average 4, 4, 4, 3, and 2, giving a GPA of 3.4. That's generally all I've seen, especially in colleges here in the USA.

There are also pluses and minuses to deal with in some schools. If used as part of the GPA, a plus adds 0.33 points to the grade you got while a minus will subtract 0.33 points from the grade. A B+ will be worth 3.33 points while and A- will be worth 3.67 points.

That doesn't make sense, as it omits 3.34 - 3.65

Also, (This is in high schools), AP classes add 1.0 to the grade, if you get a D or better, and honors classes add .5 to the grade (Same restrictions), allowing some people to get around a 4.8-4.9 (Mandortory classes actually LOWER their GPA, since they are only worth 4.0)

My school's slightly tougher on the letter grades.

100 - 94 -> A
93 - 87 -> B
86 - 77 -> C
76 - 65 -> D
<65 -> F

Yay Private Schools!

This is the way Yale does it. And the way my high school did, too, I think.

At our school, that was the "honor point average."

That's why unweighted I have a 3.9 and a weighted GPA of 4.7. Good stuff.

Yeah, Northwestern is screwy like that, only we end up with a system where an A- is a 3.7, and a B+ is a 3.3. I hate it, mainly because I keep thinking a B+ is a 3.4 and being disappointed when I see my grades.

So you guys are saying that it still varies between each school (university/college) in the states?

[QUOTE=Michael MacFarlane]Yeah, Northwestern is screwy like that, only we end up with a system where an A- is a 3.7, and a B+ is a 3.3. I hate it, mainly because I keep thinking a B+ is a 3.4 and being disappointed when I see my grades.[/QUOTE]

This is how my high school does it.

Also, different classes have different scales. In 10th grade, "The World and Europe II" history class (an AP option was not offered) a 95% or up was an A, a 90% or up was an A-. It benefited lower grades but made getting a higher grade harder.

Honors or AP adds one point regardless of what your grade is.
Highest achievable GPA is around a 4.7 if you take the max number of AP classes and get straight As (no A-s) .. nobody's done this (as in, nobody's gotten straight As) yet in the 17 years my school has been in existance.

90, 80, 70, 60. A, B, C, D. Below is an F. That's how RIT does it.

There's one kid at my school who has above a 5. I have a 4.6

Above a ... 5.0?

A+ in AP/Honors classes = 5.33

I dealt with that until 8th grade, then we switched to 100% - 90% = A

How to Calculate Your Callegiate G.P.A. - taken from my college handbook:

step 1 - calculate grade points
for each course, mulitply the # of credit hours by the numaric grade equivlant on the 4.0 scale, these are the grade points
step 2 - add all grade points together
step 3 - devide the total grade points by the total numbre of credit hours
this is your gpa

example.....................credit hours....grade on scale....grade points
english 101.....................3...........x........4.0................=12.0
math 121........................3...........x.......3.67...............=11.01
contempory art 102........3...........x........3.0................=9.0
Biology 111.....................4...........x........2.33..............=9.32

total credit hours - 13
total grade points - 41.33
41.33/13= 3.18

3.18 is the gpa

Ah. That's hardcore.