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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I agree MCPS is a whacko but it’s not quite as bad as you are saying.  You get an official grade per semester not year, so the lowest you could get for an A is 79.5 one quarter then 89.5 the second quarter - a B and an A averaging to an A.[/quote]

How does that average to an A? At the very least an A should be 90%. Those two numbers do not average 90%. It’s mid-B (84.5%) Only in crazy DMV land is 84.5% an A![/quote]

this is wack.  how do a 79.5 and and 89.5 average to a 89.5?  it averages to an 84.5 which is a mid B.  how does that turn into an A?[/quote]

Because they are a B and an A for their respective quarters.  In MCPS, a B in one quarter and an A in the other quarter results in an A for the semester.  Yes, it would average to 84.5, but that is not how the grading rubric is done (i.e., irrelevant).[/quote]

This is what is so wacky with MCPS grading.  At our private quarters numbers are averaged.. So an 90 quarter 1 plus an 80 quarter 2 is an 85. 
DCPS averages letter grades like MCPS but at least they have "minus" and "plus" grades so it's not like MCPS when anything about a 89.5 is an A.

79.5 quarter 1 and 89.5 quarter 2:

[b]MCPS: 4.0
NCS: 3.0
DCPS: 3.3[/b][/quote]

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