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[Post New]10/03/2023 21:48
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Anonymous
What does it look like? Do the quarter grades show up? DD is not doing well in a core class and is in quite a panic.
[Post New]10/03/2023 21:48
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Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:What does it look like? Do the quarter grades show up? DD is not doing well in a core class and is in quite a panic.


No quarter grades show up, only the semester grades.
[Post New]10/03/2023 21:49
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Anonymous
Only semester grades
[Post New]10/03/2023 22:26
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Anonymous
Only matters if she’s in 12th grade and applying ED to a college that wants first quarter grades. Otherwise, it’s just the semester grade.
[Post New]10/04/2023 00:22
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Anonymous
Phewww!
[Post New]10/04/2023 07:50
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Anonymous
So if a kid gets an A but it’s made up of a B in one semester and an A in the other, they see that info?
[Post New]10/04/2023 08:08
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Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:So if a kid gets an A but it’s made up of a B in one semester and an A in the other, they see that info?


No, they only see the semester grade. This is why so many kids work hard to get a A first quarter and don’t care at all about second quarter because even if they get a B, it won’t matter.
[Post New]10/04/2023 08:10
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Anonymous
Actually, I misunderstood since you’re talking about semester grades. Each semester is its own grade so if you a B one semester and and a one semester, both of those grades would show up but the quarter grades will not.
[Post New]10/04/2023 08:14
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Anonymous
Do ED schools require a report of first quarter grades? (I haven't seen this to be the case but DS hasn't finished his application yet so I'm not sure)
[Post New]10/04/2023 08:17
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Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:So if a kid gets an A but it’s made up of a B in one semester and an A in the other, they see that info?


No, they only see the semester grade. This is why so many kids work hard to get a A first quarter and don’t care at all about second quarter because even if they get a B, it won’t matter.


Oh I’m confused then. This is probably a basic question but there are two semesters, yes? And we just had interims. Are the interims quarter grades? If not when does the quarter end? So each year there are 4 quarter grades that become two semester grades? Does that become a single year grade or not?
[Post New]10/04/2023 08:22
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Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:Actually, I misunderstood since you’re talking about semester grades. Each semester is its own grade so if you a B one semester and and a one semester, both of those grades would show up but the quarter grades will not.


+1. For example:

Q1 B + Q2 A = S1 A
Q3 B + Q4 C = S2 B

Transcript would show both the S1 A and the S2 B.
[Post New]10/04/2023 08:23
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Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:So if a kid gets an A but it’s made up of a B in one semester and an A in the other, they see that info?


No, they only see the semester grade. This is why so many kids work hard to get a A first quarter and don’t care at all about second quarter because even if they get a B, it won’t matter.


Oh I’m confused then. This is probably a basic question but there are two semesters, yes? And we just had interims. Are the interims quarter grades? If not when does the quarter end? So each year there are 4 quarter grades that become two semester grades? Does that become a single year grade or not?


An interim is half of a quarter. They don't mean anything. There are no single year grades.
[Post New]10/04/2023 08:29
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Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:So if a kid gets an A but it’s made up of a B in one semester and an A in the other, they see that info?


No, they only see the semester grade. This is why so many kids work hard to get a A first quarter and don’t care at all about second quarter because even if they get a B, it won’t matter.


Oh I’m confused then. This is probably a basic question but there are two semesters, yes? And we just had interims. Are the interims quarter grades? If not when does the quarter end? So each year there are 4 quarter grades that become two semester grades? Does that become a single year grade or not?


An interim is half of a quarter. They don't mean anything. There are no single year grades.


No final grades? Only semester grades? What grade is used to calculate GPA?
[Post New]10/04/2023 08:29
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Anonymous
And really quarters are called Marking Periods, so you may see them as MP1 etc. The first marking period ends on Nov. 1st. The second marking period (and first semester) ends on Jan. 29th.
[Post New]10/04/2023 08:30
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Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:So if a kid gets an A but it’s made up of a B in one semester and an A in the other, they see that info?


No, they only see the semester grade. This is why so many kids work hard to get a A first quarter and don’t care at all about second quarter because even if they get a B, it won’t matter.


Oh I’m confused then. This is probably a basic question but there are two semesters, yes? And we just had interims. Are the interims quarter grades? If not when does the quarter end? So each year there are 4 quarter grades that become two semester grades? Does that become a single year grade or not?


An interim is half of a quarter. They don't mean anything. There are no single year grades.


No final grades? Only semester grades? What grade is used to calculate GPA?


That's right. Only semester grades, which are each used to calculate the GPA.
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