Survey posted 2000-10-23 23:38 by Nick Disabato.

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Mine rounds to an F :( but I lied and put an A so everyone would like me. You like me now, right guys? right?

dork now we all hate you...jk...i dont know even know you....i was the first F yea im proud to know it got me somwhere....but i have an A+ in math...i just dont do anything n my other classes

I neither need or am taking math this year. I have 2 more years to take Prob & Stat. My chemistry class is way too easy. I'm the only person in the class getting over 100%.

I got a B average for my high school career. Thats pretty good for someone that never studied or did homework but I do have to say now that I'm in college I wish I would have learn those skills.

WOW! I thougt i was the only person to not study and do homework and get a B....But yeah, i really do wish i learned those skills too.

Study? What's that? I have a 3.7 and I've never studied

You know what, I have never studied or done homework and I have a 4.8 GPA

You know what, I have never studied or even gone to school, and I'm teaching physics in High School!

hey I think you are the new honors physics teacher at my school

I have a 5.2 GPA, but I used my calculator for EVERYTHING, including calculating my GPA, tee hee. My teachers are not the observant type :P No, JK, I didn't cheat, I just have no life :)

BL Alien, he who spends his free time studying for the Gym test

Uhm... 5.2 is impossible. 5.0 is a weighted class with an A, and 4.0 is a regular class with an A... it would be impossible to get higher than a 5.0.

The valedictorian of my high school had a GPA of 5.5.

Princetonb HIgh School, Right?
Or was it a high school where no one but he knew how to add?

I go to a school like that! Except I think the head of the math department is catching on to multiplication pretty fast.

No, just a school with a 6-point scale.

Ok, this is how our grades work. We have four types of classes: AP, Honor's, Regular, and Basic. I can't get into AP since it's just for seniors and I'm a freshman, so I got into all Honor's classes. Honor's classes grade like this:
A - 5.5
B - 4.5
C - 3.5
D - 2.5
E - 1 (don't ask)
F - 0
AP is what I just said plus .5, so an AP A is a 6.0, B is 5.0, and so on. A regular A is 5.0, a B is 4.0, and so on. A basic A is 4.5, a B is 3.5, and so on. I have five A's and two B's, and that averages out to 5.2 Simple, right?

PS: Just got one of my grades up to an A, so that's a 5.4 now. Just one more to go...

Wierd. My school is as follows:
Honors and Regular
A 4
B 3
C 2
D 1
F 0

A.P.
A 5
B 4
C 2
D 1
F 0

They are thinking about making Honors classes weighted where an A would be 4.5, but I will have graduated by then (at least I sure hope so).

I have a 3.9something (A). I do almost all my homework, but usually don't study, except for last year in Honors Biology (still got a B). The thing that makes me mad is that I could have easily gotten an A if I would have taken regular, and then I'd have a 4.0.

My school had a more complicated system. It was purely numeric, and grade points were calculated like this:

float GP(int grade, int level)
{
if (grade < 70)
return 0.0; // No grade points for 'F'
else
switch (level)
{
case HONORS: return 0.1 * (grade - 40);
case AVERAGE: return 0.1 * (grade - 50);
default: return 0.1 * (grade - 60);
}
}

Under this scheme, a 100 in an honors level class is 6.0 and an 87 in a average-level class (that's what I got in driver's ed) is 3.7.

My final GPA was 5.3571 (reported as 3.571 on those scholarship applications that expected a 4-point scale). i.e., the weighted GP system turned my 97.65 average into a 103.57.

Although they were irrelevant to GPA, letter grades were used frequently and were defined as:

A = 90-100 // I had 46 of them.
B = 80-89 // I had 4 of them.
C = 70-79
F = 0-69

Therefore, on a "normal" scale, I had a 3.920.

Hey, what programming/scripting language is that in? I know it's not C, HTML, any form of BASIC, Assembler, or Assembly, so what is it?

That looks like C to me...

Actually it's C++/Java, but it would also be a valid C program if the // comment was changed to /* */.

However, it's really irrelevant, as I intended this code not as part of a computer program but as a more concise way to decribe the DPHS grading scale. I could have written:

* Grade points are determined by both the semester average (0-100 scale) and the course level.
* There are 3 course levels offered.
* The maximum GP in an honors-level course (i.e. any PAP or AP course, third or higher year of a foreign language, or any college course) is 6.0. (This requires a 100; any old A won't do.)
* The maximum GP in an average-level course is 5.0. (i.e., there is either a 1 GP bonus per honors course or a 1 GP penalty per regular course, depending on how you look at it.)
* The maximum GP in an "alternate" (i.e., special ed) course is 4.0. (Before 1997, it was 3.0. I suppose the administration needed a way to boost the retards' self esteem.)
* Each point on your semester average is worth 0.1 GP. A 98 in an honors course is a 5.8, a 95 in an regular course is a 4.5, etc. Note that this system places little emphasis on letter grades because the difference between an 89 (B) and a 90 (A) is exactly the same as any other one-point difference.
* However, letter grades are still used for other purposes, and they are A (90-100), B (80-89), C (70-79), and F (0-69). D (60-69) is used only for honors courses. If you earn a 'D' in an honors class, you will not receive credit for the course but can remain eligible for extracurricular activities.
* Failing grades (0-69) are worth NO grade points, regardless of the level.

The same information (and a little more), but no computer code.

correct me if i'm wrong, but aren't you missing a few things?

float GP(int grade, int level, int HONORS, int AVERAGE) //don't you need to pass in the values for HONORS and AVERAGE so you can use those variables in the case: statements without getting an error for an undefined variable?
{
if (grade < 70)
return 0.0; // No grade points for 'F'
else
switch (level)
{
case HONORS: return 0.1 * (grade - 40); break; //if you don't have the break statement here it will cause 'fallthrough'
case AVERAGE: return 0.1 * (grade - 50); break;
default: return 0.1 * (grade - 60);
}
}

maybe your C++/Java is different than mine though, who knows, because there are way too many variations of C languages out there now.

A-S

I'm assuming that the constants HONORS, AVERAGE, and ALTERNATE had previously been defined with a #define, const int, or final int statement.

The way I wrote it, "fallthrough" isn't an issue because the return statement has the same effect as a break (except that it breaks from the whole function, not just the switch() block).

btw, a more efficient way to write that is:

const int HONORS = 40;
const int AVERAGE = 50;
const int ALTERNATE = 60;

float GP(int grade, int level)
{
if (grade < 70) return 0.0;
else return 0.1 * (grade - level);
}

Ahhhhh, yes i see, the return does make the break pointless to put in there.

It also makes the "else" in my second version of the function unneccessary.

My school makes it easy to calculate, and i wish it had been harder:

A=4
B=3
C=2
D=1
F=0

Got it? I thought so.

This gives absolutely no weight to the various Accelerated, Advanced, Advanced Placement, Honors, or to any other classes. This means that a 'B' in AP History is worse than an 'A' in regular American Literature. This tends to discourage valedictorian candidates from taking AP courses, because one letter grade will make a big difference, whereas an 'A' in an one of those courses will not raise the GPA.

Weighted GPA's have their own problems. For example, in my last semester of high school I took 7 honors courses and one average course. The average for my honors courses was 5.98 but my overall average was 5.84. By taking one MORE course than most of my peers, I was PENALIZED 0.14 grade point for that semester. Why should someone be denied the opportunity to be valedictorian because they choose to take average-level electives in addition to the regular course load?

Hmm. Our school has A = 4.0, B+ = 3.5 (although some teachers don't give +'s), B = 3.0, etc. It's kind of funny actually. I get A's in most of my classes and get 5's on AP exams and such but all classes count the same and some people who I do better than have a slightly higher GPA because they take easier classes (mine is probably between 3.8 or 3.9, I don't know exactly). Colleges probably won't especially care about a few mistakes though, I'd assume they would look at individual courses as opposed to a single number that depends on a variety of variables and is no clear indication.