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GPA conversion: a low 90 is the same as a high 90?

 
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Old 09-27-2013 at 02:08 PM   #1
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GPA conversion: a low 90 is the same as a high 90?
Is this true? So you will not see at all your percentage at the end of the sem (like in high school), instead you'll just see what you got out of 12? Would there be any advantage of striving for perfection then
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Is this true? So you will not see at all your percentage at the end of the sem (like in high school), instead you'll just see what you got out of 12? Would there be any advantage of striving for perfection then
You should take a look at the grading system used at Mac - just google it, and you'll see why it's true. It's not "what you got out of 12", because the marks aren't evenly weighted between the 12 grade points...a 9 on the 12-point scale isn't 9/12=75%. At the end of the term you get your mark on the 12 point scale, and your letter grade. Each whole number on the 12-point scale corresponds to a letter grade, so it's really just two different ways of saying the same thing.
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Is this true? So you will not see at all your percentage at the end of the sem (like in high school), instead you'll just see what you got out of 12? Would there be any advantage of striving for perfection then
straight 12's is perfection....and A LOT harder than you think.
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Old 09-27-2013 at 08:33 PM   #4
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There's a reason anything over "90" is a "12"...
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i guess there is a new strategy ground in this now for mac gpa, before in high school we worked to try to pump that 80 to an 85, but instead now we should focus on getting the 77 to an 80 (9 to a 10), instead of pumping an 80-83 (10 to a 10)...

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