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Some high schools, to reflect the varying skill required for different course levels, will give higher numerical grades for difficult courses, often referred to as a weighted GPA. For example, two common conversion systems used in honors and Advanced Placement courses are: A = 5 or 4.5; B = 4 or 3.5 [5] C = 3 or 2.5; D = 2 or 1.5; F = 0 [19]
In Germany, school grades vary from 1 (very good, sehr gut) to 6 (insufficient, ungenügend). In the final classes of German Gymnasium schools that prepare for university studies, a point system is used with 15 points being the best grade and 0 points the worst. The percentage causes the grade can vary from teacher to teacher, from subject to ...
Law school GPA curve University of Akron School of Law: 3.0 first year, 3.1 upper years. [2] University of Alabama School of Law: 3.20 [3] Albany Law School: 3.0 [4] American University Washington College of Law: No mandatory curve; 3.1 to 3.3 mean for 1L courses, except First-Year Rhetoric. 3.25 to 3.45 mean for most upper-level courses. [5]
In the gymnasium (three-year pre-university course, similar to the UK sixth form college, officially called "upper secondary school" by Skolverket, despite there being no such thing as a "lower secondary school"), the same grading system as the primary school was used until 2011, when it was changed to a six-degree system A–F (A being the highest and F for having failed). [2]
All grade thresholds change per year according to the intensity of the exam. As of 2019, Exghest Mean Grade (A) equated to a percentage of 81+, although below is the Standard Grading System that is implemented as a base for all series of examinations.
At Saint Anselm, the top 25% of the class has a 3.1 GPA; the median grade at the college is around a 2.50 GPA. Some professors and administrators believe that inflating grades makes it harder for students to realize their academic strengths and weaknesses and may encourage students to take classes based on grade expectation.
German universities (except for law schools) grade with a scale of 1 to 5: 1.0–1.5 sehr gut (very good: an outstanding achievement) 1.6–2.5 gut (good: an achievement which lies substantially above average requirements) 2.6–3.5 befriedigend (satisfactory: an achievement which corresponds to average requirements)
[25] [26] About half of all French Law School students at Paris Sorbonne I maintain an average of 10–12, [27] while the median grade at Cornell Law School is 3.35 (B+), [28] at Duke University School of Law is 3.30 (B+), [29] at UC Davis School of Law is 3.25–3.35 (B/B+), [30] and at Columbia Law School the median GPA is estimated at 3.4 ...