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Unome wrote:Today I found out that my weighted GPA for science classes is a 105.5 :shock:
What is your schools GPA scale?
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Panda Weasley wrote:
Unome wrote:Today I found out that my weighted GPA for science classes is a 105.5 :shock:
What is your schools GPA scale?
I have no idea; I don't know much about how the whole GPA thing works.
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Unome wrote:
Panda Weasley wrote:
Unome wrote:Today I found out that my weighted GPA for science classes is a 105.5 :shock:
What is your schools GPA scale?
I have no idea; I don't know much about how the whole GPA thing works.
That looks like a 100-point scale (my HS did it the same way). It's literally just averaging grades, with some weighting -- maybe 1.1x -- for certain classes. Though GPA in high schools is always screwy, since there are so many ways of doing it, so it's hard to actually compare them meaningfully.
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AlphaTauri wrote:
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Panda Weasley wrote: What is your schools GPA scale?
I have no idea; I don't know much about how the whole GPA thing works.
That looks like a 100-point scale (my HS did it the same way). It's literally just averaging grades, with some weighting -- maybe 1.1x -- for certain classes. Though GPA in high schools is always screwy, since there are so many ways of doing it, so it's hard to actually compare them meaningfully.
I know we get seven points added for some classes as a weight, but I'm not entirely sure which ones (regardless my unweighted science grades were mostly 95's with one 98, so I'm not sure exactly how it works).
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And I thought my school was weird with regard to grades...

I skipped junior year today- it was surprisingly easy. All of a sudden I feel super relatable to the stuff Samlan said last year.
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Unome wrote:
AlphaTauri wrote:
Unome wrote: I have no idea; I don't know much about how the whole GPA thing works.
That looks like a 100-point scale (my HS did it the same way). It's literally just averaging grades, with some weighting -- maybe 1.1x -- for certain classes. Though GPA in high schools is always screwy, since there are so many ways of doing it, so it's hard to actually compare them meaningfully.
I know we get seven points added for some classes as a weight, but I'm not entirely sure which ones (regardless my unweighted science grades were mostly 95's with one 98, so I'm not sure exactly how it works).
That sounds even more confusing than ours! I'm pretty sure we have a 4 point scale, but APs are 5. I might be wrong though, the whole GPA thing confuses me as well.
Magikarpmaster629 wrote:And I thought my school was weird with regard to grades...

I skipped junior year today- it was surprisingly easy. All of a sudden I feel super relatable to the stuff Samlan said last year.
There's not really a point to skipping grades at my high school, so I didn't realize that was a thing until you said that! Haha! :lol: What's that process like?
There are only a few classes at my school that are limited to certain grades (really just the AP pairs, but there are a few electives as well), so you can take the "senior level" math as a freshman if you so desire (and have the pre-reqs).
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Fibonacci924 wrote:Crash Course is making a Human Geography course the year after I take it. WHY DIDN'T I HAVE THIS LAST YEAR!!! :( :( :( :( :cry: :cry:
Aww! That sucks. I didn't even realize that schools offered an AP about games until they made the course. It looks interesting, I might watch it for fun at some point when I have time.
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Panda Weasley wrote:
Fibonacci924 wrote:Crash Course is making a Human Geography course the year after I take it. WHY DIDN'T I HAVE THIS LAST YEAR!!! :( :( :( :( :cry: :cry:
Aww! That sucks. I didn't even realize that schools offered an AP about games until they made the course. It looks interesting, I might watch it for fun at some point when I have time.
There is no AP games, they just wanted to make an informative course. They also have one on intellectual property, and I think some other topics that are not related to AP.
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