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I think they should at least move away from reporting overall GPA. I know too many people that were taking easy classes or professors to keep their GPA up. No o

I think they should at least move away from reporting overall GPA. I know too many people that were taking easy classes or professors to keep their GPA up. No one else benefits from that move. Moving away from grades probably makes sense too. Unfortunately classes are too unique to have simple objective standards and there is no way for anyone to make useful sense of them. The overall goals of grades, to measure students knowledge of the subject is only useful if you are comparing a student with another student who took the same class from the same professor. Since no one really needs that limited of a comparison, a more objective standard is needed. That's why programs with specific

chris11 18y ago
There are some students who are now saying that paying attention to your overall g.p.a. is counter productive. Cal Newport just recommends that students find the best way to learn the material, and focus on grades from tests and homework. In other words, focus on the process and use the short term results for feedback, don't stress about the long term results He wrote a book on doing well in college, and interviewed about fifty straight-A students. Oddly enough, the ones who payed the most attention to their overall g.p.a, for example dropping courses before they affected their g.p.a., did the worst. Link: http://calnewport.com/blog/2007/11/14/the-unconventional-scholar-ignore-your-gpa/ http://calnewport.com/blog/2007/11/14/the-unconventional-sch...
- Shamiq 18y ago
  Pardon me, but I'm in an Algorithms class, and I'm seeing "Greedy Strategy" written all over that.
- DaniFong 18y ago
  I knew a kid who desperately wanted straight A+'s. He was really sharp, and took physics and math. But when he got to third year, quantum mechanics loomed ahead, and, reportedly, he wasn't sure if he could ace it. He abandoned physics, and switched to chemistry. He did, in fact, get a perfect 4.3 GPA. But I think it left marks.

chris11 18y ago

There are some students who are now saying that paying attention to your overall g.p.a. is counter productive. Cal Newport just recommends that students find the best way to learn the material, and focus on grades from tests and homework. In other words, focus on the process and use the short term results for feedback, don't stress about the long term results He wrote a book on doing well in college, and interviewed about fifty straight-A students. Oddly enough, the ones who payed the most attention to their overall g.p.a, for example dropping courses before they affected their g.p.a., did the worst. Link: http://calnewport.com/blog/2007/11/14/the-unconventional-scholar-ignore-your-gpa/ http://calnewport.com/blog/2007/11/14/the-unconventional-sch...

Shamiq 18y ago
Pardon me, but I'm in an Algorithms class, and I'm seeing "Greedy Strategy" written all over that.
DaniFong 18y ago
I knew a kid who desperately wanted straight A+'s. He was really sharp, and took physics and math. But when he got to third year, quantum mechanics loomed ahead, and, reportedly, he wasn't sure if he could ace it. He abandoned physics, and switched to chemistry. He did, in fact, get a perfect 4.3 GPA. But I think it left marks.