Grade Calculator helps you figure out your current grade as well as what is necessary to maintain or improve your grade overall. If a letter grade isn’t available, simply enter any numerical value and it will determine what letter grade you’d receive.
As you start your journey as a student, you will soon realize that there are many challenges for you to overcome, one of them is staying on top of your grades. You might be asking yourself the following questions? What grade am I in right now? What is my GPA? What do I need to do to improve my grade? How far off am I from passing this class? With Grade Calculator, you can begin to find answers to some of these questions.
This calculator can be used to calculate the grade needed on a final exam to reach a target course grade. Find your current grade and the weight of the exam, then fill in the remaining information. To use this calculator, simply enter your current course grade, your final exam score (use 0 if you haven’t taken one yet), and the weight of the final exam. The calculations are done as you type.
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Alternative Grading Systems
Letter grades have been used in schools for decades to provide a general measure of a student’s overall performance. They can be more effective than qualitative evaluations in situations where there are right or wrong answers, such as an algebra exam. However, they may not provide a student with enough feedback in regards to an assessment such as a written test.
The A-F grading system is used by the majority of schools in the United States. Although written analysis of students’ work may be a more effective form of feedback, there is the argument that students and parents are unlikely to read the feedback, and that teachers do not have time to write such an analysis.
There is precedence for this type of evaluation system however, in Saint Ann’s School in New York City, an arts-oriented private school that does not have a letter grading system. Instead, teachers write anecdotal reports for each student. This method of evaluation focuses on promoting learning and improvement rather than just getting a good grade in a course.
While other schools use grading scales that are not as familiar to students who have graduated from American high schools, Sanborn High School still retains the grading system that most students in the United States and other western countries are used to.
However, this is likely a necessity due to the large number of students who attend Sanborn High School, at approximately 1700. If each student received a grade for each assignment that he or she did for each class, this would likely be an incredibly time-consuming process, which might make it difficult for teachers to accomplish all the tasks they need to do throughout their day.However, many teachers already try to create an environment that keeps grades from playing a big role in student motivation. One could argue that a combination of these two systems would be the most realistic and effective way to provide an standardized evaluation of students while promoting learning.
History of Grading Systems
Grades are a way critiques or analyzes the level of performance or quality of work by a student as part of their education. Grades are typically given as letters or as a rating of an evaluation assignment. They can be objectively justified and determined, or completely subjective, such as a grading curve. The most grades given to any students in an academic subject are four, as in the Yale grading system. However, grades for individual assignments can vary greatly due to differences in expectation and course requirements.
In 1887, Mount Holyoke College became the first college to use letter grades. A number of other colleges and universities adopted this grading system and in 1908 the College Entrance Examination Board began using standardized grading scales that included all currently used letter grades, as well as the fractional equivalent of those grades on a scale from 0 to 1.0.
In 1962, the Ad Hoc Committee on grading reform proposed that any grade below C be considered a failing grade, now known as an F. In 2011, many educational institutions in the United States adopted either a four-point system or a plus and minus system for grading. Today there are several variations for how these grades are interpreted by institutions.
Final Exam Grade Calculation
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F = Final exam grade
G = Grade you want for the class
w = Weight of the final exam, divided by 100 (put weight in decimal form vs. percentage form)
C = Your current grade
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