13597528:Isis_rocks said:
Never known anyone who goes to a school with a grading system that's not out of 4.0. Can you explain how this works? Is that 98 out of 100?
Where I go, A is 4.0, B+ is 3.5, B is 3.0, etc. but even the very very top students (relatively good private school) end up with a 90-94/100 max in any class that isn't non-honors (required religion).
I guess I could see some kids at my local public school have high averages, close to 100, but their cirriculum is a joke. Where I attend, the way teachers grade, it's virtually impossible to have over a 95/100 average. Is your's weighted or something?
yea so it's a 98 out of 100, and no, none of my classes have been weighted throughout my highschool career (with the exception of tests in AP calc, where where we get back a quarter of the points we lost). Sure, certain categories are weighted more than others, for example, maybe tests will be 30%, quizzes will be 20%, homework is 20%, participation is 20%, and classwork will be 10% (that's just an example, not necessarily how it works). in each category, there will be a certain number of points you can get in a quarter, and that number varies on how many test, homework assignments, etc you have, and then that percentage is averaged (weighted as in the example above) with all of the other percentages in the other categories. Idk its not that odd around here, most schools do out of 100 non weighted and kids have high averages.
That being said, I'm on track to be the salutatorian (behind some Asian chick who does nothing but study - but that's a different issue lol) so I guess I'm higher than most.
I go to a pretty damn good public school, so I don't think that's the problem. Out of the ~100 school districts around me, my school is in the top 3 yearly based on test scores, graduation rate, overall quality, etc, and we send tons of kids to really good schools.
Must be a regional thing I guess.
