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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Does B and C become a B for the semester grade?[/quote]

Yes, in fact if a student has a mixture of Bs and As (one of each for each subject in each semester), the student can end up with a transcript 4.0 for college applications and have never actually had a 4.0 on a report card.

To make it even more interesting, a student can have an 89.5% one quarter, which the MCPS has set the grade program to round up to a 90% A, and therefore have an A on the transcript without ever having an 90% or higher A on the report card.

To be even cooler, the student could have his grade increased into the A zone by turning in homework which is graded on completion and worth 10% of the overall grade. Therefore a student may earn an A in the class without ever having an earned an A on an assignment that was graded for accuracy.

The same thing can happen in any other area of the grade ranges. A student could pass a class with a D and never actually passed an assignment graded for accuracy. Imagine doing this in Algebra 1 and then moving onto the next math class.

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