Grades, GPA, and exam marks, explained with worked examples.
You worked your course grade out by hand and the gradebook says something else. Usually neither calculation i…
A teacher's setup guide to grade weighting: choosing categories that stay defensible, setting percentages tha…
Two courses can mark the same work and hand back different letters, because the grading scheme decides how mu…
A passing grade is not one number — there's the pass mark for the course, the grade your programme requires,…
A final exam moves your course grade by its weight times the gap between your exam score and your current ave…
A teacher's decision guide to gradebook setup — how points-based and weighted-category grading produce differ…
Why a word-for-word translation of a Vietnamese transcript confuses foreign admissions readers — the 10-point…
Four ways to convert marks into a GPA — your school's official table, letter-to-point, percentage-band, and c…
What a credit hour actually measures, how to work one out from contact time and study hours, quarter-to-semes…
Weighted grades, how to calculate them by hand: the weighted average formula, a worked syllabus example, and…
The everyday marks arithmetic every student needs: turning a raw score into a percentage, averaging test scor…
What a grading scale really is, the typical US letter-and-percentage bands, how letters map to GPA points, pa…