I really liked my system in high school. It was quite clear cut:
90%+ was an A
80-89% was a B
70-79% was a C
60-69% was a D
59% and below was an F/no credit.
WIth the GPA, it's also pretty standard
3.5-4.0=A Average
2.5-3.4=B Average
1.5-2.4=C Average
0.5-1.4=D Average
>0.5=You're trying to fail and you can't even succeed at that.
So before everybody blabs on about their lowest scores... keep in mind that grading scales are hardly uniform. So rather than just proudly boasting... explain the context of that score first.
Thank you.
I had a rather unusual grade scale at the high school I attended.
A = 95+
B+ = 90-94
B = 85-89
C+ = 80-84
C = 75-79
D = 70-74
E = 60-69
F = 59-
E and F were both failing grades, but with an E, you could try and make up the class during summer school, and have the E not show up on your record, whereas with an F, it stayed on the record even if you did summer school and passed the course then.
A = 6.0
B+ = 5.0
B = 4.0
C+ = 3.0
C = 2.0
D = 1.0
E and F = 0.0
There were three tracks, vocational, college-prep and an in-between track. In-between courses got a 2.0 bonus to the GPA, college-prep courses got a 4.0 bonus and AP courses got a 6.0 bonus. I ended up with a GPA of just under 10, and it would have been higher had I not taken band, as despite getting A's in it all four years, they only got me 8.0 for each course.
I would have been valedictorian if I'd only taken study hall instead of band. (I had 5½ more credits than I needed to graduate.)
Needless to say, I'm not fond of all the aspects of that system, but I do like that grade of E they had.
