Corrected entry: Kyle and Francesca both have 3.7 GPAs, yet Francesca ranks 34th out of 281 and Kyle ranks 105th.
Myridon
12th Jul 2004
The Perfect Score (2004)
11th Jul 2004
The Perfect Score (2004)
Corrected entry: Kyle has a 3.7 GPA and ranks 105/281 in his class. His friend Matty has a 2.3 GPA and ranks 179/281. There's no way only 74 students out of 281 could have grades between 2.3 and 3.7 - it would destroy the grading curve. (00:01:45 - 00:04:15)
Correction: Not all schools grade on a curve, and the ones that do can grade on different curves. In any case, grading curves are used for individual tests, not the class as a whole, much less the average of all classes over all 4 years. How would it be if the school announced to the parents that there was a mandatory percentage of the students that would never be allowed to graduate?
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Correction: They may be rounding off, Francesca may have a 3.749 while Kyle really has a 3.651. There can be other factors than GPA in class rank. For example, I went to a school where it was possible to take 7 credits per year but you only needed 22 credits to graduate so you could take study halls or only go half the day your senior year. If you had the same GPA but took more classes, your class rank was higher, 28 A's is better that 22 A's.
Myridon