Joan in GE Posted April 18, 2009 Share Posted April 18, 2009 I'd been using 92% but when I recently signed up my son up for SAT II (French), they asked about grades and I found that they stipulate 90% for an A. Besides the recent thread about transcripts where people talked about not putting grades on their transcripts at all, I am wondering what the general habits are about this? Thanks! Joan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gwen in VA Posted April 18, 2009 Share Posted April 18, 2009 You can do it any way you like. I actually did an A as 93% - 100%, with a B being between 84% and 93%. It worked well until ds1's senior year, when he ALMOST had several grades in the 92% area. He did squeak by with A's, but I would have been seriously annoyed if I had ended up giving him a B just because I used a more rigorous grading standard than usual. So with my younger kids I am just going to use the A -- 90 - 100; B -- 80-90 grading system. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kpupg Posted April 18, 2009 Share Posted April 18, 2009 ... but I obsessed over this for a couple of days, myself. Solved it by going to beaucoup (French LOL) websites for high schools, online courses, etc. I surveyed their grading scales. Found only a very few exceptions to the 90-80-70 model. So I'm going with the herd on this one. Karen Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MyThreeSons Posted April 18, 2009 Share Posted April 18, 2009 So while an "A" is defined as 93% to 100%, a 93 will give you 4.000 grade points if it's a college prep class, 4.500 if it's an Honors course, and 5.000 if it's an AP course. But, a 96% final grade would give you 4.375, 4.875 or 5.375 grade points, respectively. Each percentage point in the final grade increases or decreases the grade point by .125. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joan in GE Posted April 19, 2009 Author Share Posted April 19, 2009 thank you Gwen, Karen, and Laura... Well I guess I have to hope that dc will not be interested in SC universities! Thanks again, Joan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Only me Posted April 20, 2009 Share Posted April 20, 2009 I really dislike it. My dd usually gets A's but right now has two B's that are a 91 and 92. She works very hard and will be very disappointed if she gets a B. I wish the grading scale was the same throughout all the schools. I've noticed that a friend of ours has a dd in the same math as dd uses. Just for that math they use a completely different scale. They only need something like an 88 for an A. So my dd needs a 93 for an A and her friend only needs an 88. Their B range would be a D for my dd. Most of the high schoolers I know have the 90, 80 scale so I wonder how colleges view those grades vs. grades where my dd goes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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