Calculating Grade Point Average

What does GPA stand for?

• Grade Point Equivalent

• Grade Point Average

• General Point Average

Which of these affects your GPA?

• Your grades in your electives

• Your grades from your 11th and 12th grade year.

• Your grades from your core classes.

• All of these options affect GPA.

True or False? Taking advanced courses (AP, Honors, Dual-Credit) helps increase a GPA.

• True

• False

There are 550 in your graduating class. You want to be in the top ten percent of your class. That means you have to be one of the top...

• Ten students

• Fifty five students

• 110 students

• None of the above

True or False? Colleges don't care which classes you took in high school as long as you got high grades.

• True

• False

An 80 in a regular course is equivalent to what grade point?

• 3.3

• 3.0

• 2.7

• 2.3

When is cumulative GPA calculated?

• A student’s cumulative Grade Point Average (GPA) is calculated at the end of each semester.
• Every Six Weeks
• At Graduation
• A student’s cumulative Grade Point Average (GPA) is calculated only at the end of the first semester of a student’s freshman year.

What is a scholarship?

• A very smart boat.

• The cost of college.

• The minimum GPA you need to get into a college.

• Free money from college awarded to students by different organizations and schools.

A 90 in an honors science course is equivalent to what grade point?

• 4.7

• 4

• 3.7

• 3.3

True of False? It is possible to have a GPA above 4.0

• True

• False