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Yes, I know it's only a lmgtfy away, but what's GPA? Some American thing?
by mnw21cam 13y ago
Yes, I know it's only a lmgtfy away, but what's GPA? Some American thing?
- mctx 13y agoGrade Point Average - we have it in Australia too
- gamegoblin 13y agoGrade Point Average. Unsurprisingly, it is a way of averaging your grades (so that the whole of your academic career is compressed to one real number). In the American system, the grades A,B,C,D,F are mapped to the numbers 4.0, 3.0, 2.0, 1.0, 0.0, respectively. Your GPA is a weighted average of your grades from 0.0-4.0 Usually a 3.0+ is considered to be decent.
- mnw21cam 13y agoThanks. I only commented because, well, there's a whole 95% of the world out there that won't know what a GPA is, and it'd be wonderful if region-specific stuff was kept out of submission comments. "Grades" is only three more characters than "GPA".