Hi, I was wondering whether our Cumulative Average will be posted anywhere or do we calculate our average ourselves? And how exactly is a 0 calculated within your CA

-Thanks

Your CA will be posted after May 23rd when the formal reviewing period finishes. And you could calculate the 0 just like there's be any other number. So (10+9+3+0, etc)/number of courses you took

Oh thank you! To be more clear, I was wondering about how badly will a 0 affect say an average of 8.5?

Originally Posted by aam18

Oh thank you! To be more clear, I was wondering about how badly will a 0 affect say an average of 8.5?

I'd say very badly. Say you have 4 courses (all 3 units) all 8.5, with an added 0 on a 3 unit course, thats 8.5*3*4/(12+3) = 6.8

That's a drop of more than one whole grade point

If you have all your grades then you can calculate your sessional average and/or cumulative average.

CA is all years , sessional is only the year just completed.

Calculating average for the year:

Just like a regular average: (Grade in course *#course units)/(# of units taken)
( if you have a zero then you add the zero in)

i.e

Phys 2B06 10
Phys 2H04 9
Phys 2C03 8
Math 2C03 0 (lets pretend you failed this course)

(8*3+9*4+10*6+0*3)/(16)=7.5 (truncated to one decimal point)

Calculating CA:

year 1: SA=10
year 2: SA=9

CA at end of year 2 = 9.5


Reference:http://registrar.mcmaster.ca /calen...ent/pg145.html

That helped very much, thank you!

It will be posted soon