Understanding GPA

Understanding GPA

Why is it important?

GPA

• Grade

• Point

• Average

• Your GPA is the average of all your semester report card grades for the courses you take in high school.

• What is the average mean?

• Pretty much which grades you are most likely getting... 3.0 means mostly B's 4.0 means mostly A's etc

Because it’s an average, every grade has an impact.

When you get into High school you will have MORE classes and that GPA will grow until you graduate

And because it’s an average, the more grades you’ve already earned, the harder it is to make dramatic changes in your GPA. Once you hit your junior and senior years, usually more than half the grades for your final GPA have already been “baked into” the calculations. Meaning it wont make a huge change.  

FRESHMAN AND SOPHOMORE YEAR

So, it’s important to do your best starting in ninth grade, and make every grade count!

SCALES- Can Vary

A basic GPA is calculated on a 4-point scale.

90-100 = 4 points

80-89=3 points

75-79=2 points

70-74= 1 point

LISD

In LISD, only courses taken in high school count for your GPA for highschool

- Unless you take Pre-AP in middle school

GPA = Forever

So.. once you get into highschool your GPA stays with you .....

You dont get to start a new GPA every year.... they BUILD on eachother

Requirements

• To graduate, you are required to have so many PASSING credits in classes.

• LISD requires 26

So why does GPA matter to me?

• if you want to go to college, colleges have MINIMUM GPA requirements for admission

• Some work places will require you to graduate highschool and if you do not pass you cannot graduate.

• Trade schools require good GPA's as well

Poll

Do you want to go to college?

• Yes

• No

Open Ended

What college would you like to go to?