Don't read this if you don't want to hear me brag.

I've just got my grades from college (I know it seems late, but I only recently actually went out of my way to find them, I didn't get them mailed to me or anything). I'm a freshman, just starting out, and I only took 3 courses. My premedial algebra doesn't count towards my GPA. The three courses are Introductory Sociology, English 1301, and premedial Algebra.

My grades:

Sociology: 4.0
English: 4.0
Premedial Algebra: 4.0

Total GPA: 4.0

Today's a good day.

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Keep up the good work......




Titana.

Thank you, Titana

I'm going to be getting myself a big thick steak as a reward.

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"A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right." -- Thomas Paine

Being intelligent is not a felony. But most societies evaluate it as at least a misdemeanor. -- Heinlein

Creationists make it sound as though a "theory" is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night. -- Isaac Asimov

What's that out of, 4.0?

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There are 10 types of people in the world. Those who understand ternary, those who don't, and those waiting for a bus.
If logic doesn't work, then surely it does.

Yup. Straight As across the board.

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"A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right." -- Thomas Paine

Being intelligent is not a felony. But most societies evaluate it as at least a misdemeanor. -- Heinlein

Creationists make it sound as though a "theory" is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night. -- Isaac Asimov

If it's out of 4 then aren't they significantly better than just plain old As?

I found it really annoying that As were anything over 70% in London universities with no recognition for anything beyond that.

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There are 10 types of people in the world. Those who understand ternary, those who don't, and those waiting for a bus.
If logic doesn't work, then surely it does.

Well, using the 100-based system here in the US, 90-100 are As, 80-90 are Bs, 70-80 are Cs, 60-70 are Ds, and anything lower are Fs.

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"A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right." -- Thomas Paine

Being intelligent is not a felony. But most societies evaluate it as at least a misdemeanor. -- Heinlein

Creationists make it sound as though a "theory" is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night. -- Isaac Asimov

Supposedly our system allowed them to set harder exams which allowed better testing of the concepts and allowed the bright ones to shine (you only needed 33% to pass IIRC). Not sure if I buy that.

Humanities tend to have a much higher percentage requirement for a 1st, and because the marking is more subjective than a science, tend to be rather difficult to get.

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There are 10 types of people in the world. Those who understand ternary, those who don't, and those waiting for a bus.
If logic doesn't work, then surely it does.

I just had the surprise of a lifetime today.

The course is "ethics and engineering".

Following the course went a little like this for me:
*courses are obligatoiry, so you could find me there
* we were "supposed" to prepare all the courses. I did that once, when I had to give a presentation . That means I had read only 1 chapter of the reader.
*I was unaware of a test until little more than one week before the test. (I didn't bother reading the reader because there wasn't a test of it anyway - I thought )

So What I did was reading half the reader once, and a small summary of the other half.

The test itself had one multiple choice part (ethics: multiple choice, no comments to answers. Who could have thought about that one? ). I had rather easy ones, so I did that part well.

The next part wanted motivation. A well motivated answer was a correct one. OK all systems armed!

Basicaly, I answered as much as possible that a given way of thinking would not lead to one unambiguous answer (which was my opinion and could be motivated, which I clearly did) and I noted wherever appropriate that answer b) was contradicting my answer at a) and the like .

Anyway we got the results today. The highest another student had received (on 10) was an 8 something. Most people had between 4 and 7. I had a 9.6 though . I thought I had passed it, but I didn't think they would like it that much, certainly not after so little effort.

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Lonewulf: congratulations, excellent results! Do they grade with 0.1 precision? We have a scale to 10, with 0.1 precision per partial and 0.5 or 1.0 per full course (series).

I had (eighted average) a 9.1 in my first year, and just above 8 in my Bachelor. Some courses were just fail/pass; we weren't allowed to count those. Anyway everything >=8 is "cum laude" here, so I have it for my Bachelors! There's just been a mistake with making my diploma, which does not mention "cum laude". I'll have to take care of that some day.

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Nicolas:
Better take care of that right away. Some bureaucracys turn errors quite rapidly into permanent cement. Nice job you guys. Pete.

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A second rate theory explains after the fact
A first rate theory predicts...A. Lomonosov

Well, no, it's probably not 0.1 precision. If it was, I certainly wouldn't have had a 4.0 GPA. I didn't make perfect scores all the way through.

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"A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right." -- Thomas Paine

Being intelligent is not a felony. But most societies evaluate it as at least a misdemeanor. -- Heinlein

Creationists make it sound as though a "theory" is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night. -- Isaac Asimov

Congratulations! I haven't had grades in years (my alma mater didn't have grades), but I remember the pride of accomplishment.

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Gillian

"Now everyone was giving her that kind of look UFOlogists get when they suddenly say, 'Hey, if you shade your eyes you can see it is just a flock of geese after all.'"

"You can't erase icing."

"I can't believe it doesn't work! I found it on the internet, man!"

I still have my official grades list, which comes to an 8+. So they have given proof of my Cum Laude themselves . After the exams I'll go and see about it together with another student who has the same problem. But I'll recalculate before that.

They're slow with the diplom anyway. We have finals in june and resits starting around 8 august. They claim I finished my Bachelors 5 august. Right, just before the resits . That's just the date when they decided to make my diploma, but it's apparently too hard to put the date you earned your last grade onto it. I finished my BA 30 june, my diploma is dated 5 august and I finally got it somewhere in october .

Anyway, on my resume I put "cum laude". If they want proof, they have my official grades list .

But I'll ask about it after the exams.

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'Grats, Lonewulf. I'm not criticizing your spelling (your name after all ) but I googled "premedial" and almost all the hits seem to be standins for pre-medical, or refer to premedial (before the mid-line?) Golgi compartments, whatever they are. Since it doesn't count towards your GPA, is it an algebra review?

"wulf" is spelled intentionally that way. And yes, I meant "remedial" or however it is. All it means is that it isn't official, it's high-school grade stuff.

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"A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right." -- Thomas Paine

Being intelligent is not a felony. But most societies evaluate it as at least a misdemeanor. -- Heinlein

Creationists make it sound as though a "theory" is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night. -- Isaac Asimov

I haven't heard that exact term, but if they are talking about what I think they're talking about , you could wiki the term "golgi tendon organ".

Exactly how and what for the GTO is used isn't known yet, althoug many articles sound as if it is clear beyond doubt.

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The standard letter grades in America are A, B, C, D, and F (fail). They correspond to 4.0, 3.0, 2.0, 1.0, and 0.0 in grade points. If a school uses +/- grades (i.e. B+, B, B- to designate high-end and low-end B grades), the +/- typically adds/subtracts 0.3 (or 0.33) to the grade points. The A+ is where is gets tricky. Some schools give 4.3 for that, some only give 4.0. It's up the school, I believe, to make that decision.
These grade points then have a weighted average (by course credits) to give your GPA (grade point average).