Thank goodness for scaling

Koku · Thank goodness for scaling

I took a physics of light exam the other day and I will be the first one to say thank goodness for scaling. out of 45 total points, one only needed 31.5 points to get an A (which I barely did). Out of 150 students, only 8 got an A... While the test was a little difficult, even I think that scaling is a bit ridiculous. Oh well, I can not complain, it saved my GPA greatly. I am sure you all have stories on grades and or scaling too.

Delilah

Huzzah! Congratulations. =]

Billgar

Pfft.....GPA! I gave up on that long ago, Parsons has another system, instead of scaling, its just failing. In my major its tough, but still out of a class of 15 there is usually one that might get an A(rarey, two) and a couple Bs. In fashion however, this might be the grade distribution for an average class.

C+
C+
C
C-
D
D
D
D
F
F
F
F
F
F
F

so Im glad im not in that,l congrats on scaling though. Also on a side note, in the world of design, GPA doesnt affect your career at all! nice!

Archaic

Man I remember when I fu... messed with my classes scaling. It was my intro to ethics course and I kept getting like 95s (which for most classes would be an A anyways) but the average person would only get like a 74. I know in a huge lecture one person doesn't make that much of a difference, but at the end of the course when I had a 95 average and you only needed a 75 for a B+... I felt like I owned that course up.

Beanbaker

Scaling is great, that's what AP physics runs off of as well. Tests are graded normally, but everything else is scaled to the final exam, which requires usually 60% of all questions right to get a five. Homework and classwork is graded with the five point system.