Check the course outline to see if it states "all borderline cases will be reviewed and marks within 0.5% of the next grade point on the McMaster 12.0 scale will be rounded up to the next grade point." If it does not, most professors skim through the grades, for small classes anyways, and then determine if a particular mark should make it to the next grade point.
For example, if you have an 84.70% and ten students have marks higher than 84.80% but lower than 85.00%, then they have a higher priority of being rounded up. If you are the first on the list, meaning the closest anyone is to an A is 84.70%, then you will get rounded up. All this, if the professor chooses to. It is possible for an 84.85% to be rounded up to an A, while an 84.65% stays at an A-. Exam marks are also sometimes looked at when making such decisions. Hope that helps.
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