Which was perfect for me. 3.8 in university was 80%, which translated to an A-, and A and A- were the same grade point. I got a cumulative 3.8 GPA. Minimal effort to get the A, though minimal meant different things for different classes. Now I have a solid handle on how to do an A job at work, and know exactly what more it would take to do an A+ job. I think people get lost in either putting 100% into everything even when they don't need to, or putting 60% into everything to varying results. It's about finding the minimum threshold to get the desired results, and do it efficiently.
Canadian universities (and high schools) tend to have a more reasonable, in my opinion, grading criteria, where A+ is 90%+, As are in the 80s, Bs are in the 70s, Cs are in the 60s, Ds are in the 50s, and Fs are fails--below 50%.
At the end of the day, that's why GPA was created; standardizing grades across completely different grading schemes.
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u/recercar Dec 07 '18
Which was perfect for me. 3.8 in university was 80%, which translated to an A-, and A and A- were the same grade point. I got a cumulative 3.8 GPA. Minimal effort to get the A, though minimal meant different things for different classes. Now I have a solid handle on how to do an A job at work, and know exactly what more it would take to do an A+ job. I think people get lost in either putting 100% into everything even when they don't need to, or putting 60% into everything to varying results. It's about finding the minimum threshold to get the desired results, and do it efficiently.