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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This question is to parents of High school seniors in Montgomery county, MD.

Do you know what is the highest weighted GPA attained by students in your high school ?[/quote]

I would also be curious on how many students with unweighted 4.0 GPAs any particular school has.[/quote]

Why?  If it takes a 79.5 and an 89.5, and no final exam to get an A, it should be a lot of kids. Not to mentioned test retakes, curved grades, and extra credit for participation to get to that 79.5 and 89.5.

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No curved grades, no participation credit, no extra credit[/quote]
Grading on a curve typically means the median is a C.[/quote]
Grading on a curve typically means giving a test that is hard enough that everyone's grade goes up once the curve is applied.  The PP is right MCPS does not allow curved grades or extra credit.  The flip side, is if a test is defective, e.g. turns out to test a concept that was never presented, there's no way to correct for that during grading--the median may well be lower than a C.  So actually, when curved grading is forbidden, tests need to be written to be easier.[/quote]

When I was in engineering school several decades ago, most exams were graded on a curve such that the mean was a C and higher or lower grades were based on the SD.[/quote]

Nifty.  MCPS does not grade on a curve. [/quote]

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