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Reply to "I hate FCPS A minuses. "
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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I agree. My school system growing up had A 90-100 B 80-89 C 75-79 D 70-74 F 69 and below I thought it was fair. My college had similar grading. [/quote] The majority of my classes in college (Engineering School at UVA) were graded on a bell curve. At least all the "hard" ones required for your major were, not necessarily the electives or anything you took outside of e-school. As for the point of this thread, college admissions do a similar thing when looking at GPA. They comparing students on a curve by looking at one FCPS student compared with all the others from their high school and FCPS. As long as everyone at FCPS is graded with the same rules then it's valid. Comparisons against other school systems aren't done side by side. They have to scale them by looking at the difference in the top GPAs between the two school systems and comparing accordingly, or comparing SAT scores.[/quote]
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