TJ Class of 2029 EOY GPA

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Anonymous wrote:So is top GPA after 9th 4.5? Or can students take more than 2 AP in 9th? Getting 4.5 by 3 honors Alg1, geometry Alg 2 before 9th and pe in summer pass/fail so in 9th do 3 honors for IBET, a language, AP pre-calc, AP human geography and band= 40+6x.5 +2x1=49 so 45/10=4.5

How did you get 40?

10 classes x 4.0=40, add .5 for 6 honors and 1.0 for 2AP = weighted 4.5 (can be higher if take > 2 APs or something P/F)

Design and Tech is not an honors class.
Foreign language in MS is not counted as an honors class
i think foreign language at TJ is also not counted as a honors class, unless AP. not sure

So it would be very rare, and an unusual amount of APs to have 4.5 at the end of 9th grade. Part of why TJ and other schools don't rank. With people gaming the system with APs bumps, ranking by GPA doesn't really as much as it did 20 yrs ago.

Right, no college is going to look at an A in PE as a negative even if it leads to a lower weighted GPA compared to another who took it P/F.
Take classes that push you, that you enjoy, and do well in them.

I've heard the same thing. Who knows if its true. I hear kids taking summer language courses P/F and taking a core class P/F seems nuts to me but if it doesn't matter, it doesn't matter.

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Anonymous wrote:My kid had some Bs and C and his overall GPA was higher than 4.2 after freshman year...he did a ton of classes before ever hitting TJ, though.

You have to get used to the lower grades. Lots of classes at TJ aren't there for you to succeed. They want you to take the B or lower or learn how to cheat to get an A (sadly)

You seem to have developed quite a coping mechanism. My child got poor grades because he/she did not cheat!! LOL

That's just what is reported to me by my kid.

That said, I've had detailed discussions about performance at TJ. The C he got - his math teacher said he understood the material perfectly but he needed to be about 3x faster completing the questions. So it wasn't about knowledge, it was about speed. It's completing complex math in equations in less than 2 minutes each.

Imagine being totally competent but that's not the goal.

That is a BS story your child fed you.

There are levels of understanding and also there is mastery you gain from practice. Someone who practiced such as by doing all the assigned homework, and many kids dont, can complete the tests on time.

If only doing all the homework was enough.

That is a good sign that base HS is a better fit.

My kid has had timed math tests in base all through HS and HW did not count. Most cld not finish the Diff Equations exams on time unless they were granted 1.5 time to take them and the exams were far harder than the HW anyway.

That is a good sign you should not have accelerated math.

Ah, so TJ instructors are harder and it isn’t fair that the gpa doesn’t really reflect the effort, knowledge, or even teaching the material being tested…but at base the same results mean the kid shouldn’t be in that level math?

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4.0 unweighted. iBET, PE, World language, two APs. Top 15% maybe.

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Anonymous wrote:4.0 unweighted. iBET, PE, World language, two APs. Top 15% maybe.

You got 4.0 unweighted with 2 APs, why only top 15%? I'd think you are top 2%.

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Anonymous wrote:4.0 unweighted. iBET, PE, World language, two APs. Top 15% maybe.

You got 4.0 unweighted with 2 APs, why only top 15%? I'd think you are top 2%.

Do you mean only 2% got straight A's among the freshmen? I don't believe it. I guess between 10% and 20% kids got straight A's.

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Anonymous wrote:4.0 unweighted. iBET, PE, World language, two APs. Top 15% maybe.

You got 4.0 unweighted with 2 APs, why only top 15%? I'd think you are top 2%.

Do you mean only 2% got straight A's among the freshmen? I don't believe it. I guess between 10% and 20% kids got straight A's.

20% out of 500+ students is like 100+, I thought that the freshman year is tough because of transition and adjustment. Later years are easier / harder?

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Anonymous wrote:4.0 unweighted. iBET, PE, World language, two APs. Top 15% maybe.

You got 4.0 unweighted with 2 APs, why only top 15%? I'd think you are top 2%.

Do you mean only 2% got straight A's among the freshmen? I don't believe it. I guess between 10% and 20% kids got straight A's.

20% out of 500+ students is like 100+, I thought that the freshman year is tough because of transition and adjustment. Later years are easier / harder?

In a class of about 25 students, even in a hard class like math, there are usually at least 5 students who got an A. These students usually do well in their other classes too, so I think about aleast 10% to 20% of the students get all A's.

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DC just told me that at least 6 out of 26 got all A's.

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Which class though?

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Anonymous wrote:Which class though?

DC's iBET rotation.