Your grades?

[DT4K]

Originally posted by: gt07

Originally posted by: MetalMat

Originally posted by: PizzaDude

Originally posted by: Metalloid
Still taking finals, but looking at about a 3.0 for the semester. University of Michigan undergrad engineering.

Calc II killed me, the average on the 2nd exam was like a 52%

Try Calc 3, it's even tougher. There's a hell of a lot more math past calc 2.

I found calc 2 to be harder, but calc 3 was pretty tough indeed.

yeah, calc 2 is the notoriously the most difficult of the 3 calc classes in college

I can't remember, is that mostly integrals?
You'd think after learning derivation, that integration would be easy, but for some reason, it took me longer to grasp.

 

[cchen]

Originally posted by: ReelC00L
Cryptographic Protocols - B+
Computer Architecture - B
Operating Systems - B

This is my first semester on the way to my PhD in computer engineering. I just needed 3.0+ to keep my assistantship. Apparently, it is hard to get A's, easy to get B's.

you're already in a phd program? anything less than an A in a phd program is considered failing...

 

[Reel]

Originally posted by: cchen

Originally posted by: ReelC00L
Cryptographic Protocols - B+
Computer Architecture - B
Operating Systems - B

This is my first semester on the way to my PhD in computer engineering. I just needed 3.0+ to keep my assistantship. Apparently, it is hard to get A's, easy to get B's.

you're already in a phd program? anything less than an A in a phd program is considered failing...

That is not the case here. The scaled grades are so rough they'd only have about 5 graduate students a year left if less than A was failing. They give a very small number of A's, many B's, and some C's. The minimum to continue is 3.0.

 

[Brian23]

3.88

 

[Mr. Lennon]

2 C's one B

 

[TuxDave]

Originally posted by: ReelC00L

Originally posted by: cchen

Originally posted by: ReelC00L
Cryptographic Protocols - B+
Computer Architecture - B
Operating Systems - B

This is my first semester on the way to my PhD in computer engineering. I just needed 3.0+ to keep my assistantship. Apparently, it is hard to get A's, easy to get B's.

you're already in a phd program? anything less than an A in a phd program is considered failing...

That is not the case here. The scaled grades are so rough they'd only have about 5 graduate students a year left if less than A was failing. They give a very small number of A's, many B's, and some C's. The minimum to continue is 3.0.

I guess it's different from how I see it. At UC Berkeley, the graduate class grading goes as.

A = You did well on everything
A- = You're average
B+ = You screwed up somewhere
B = You deserve to fail but we felt pity on you
B- --> F = Professor hates you

It's generally true for most classes. The toughest distribution I dealt with was roughly 50% A and 50% B. Same rules, 3.0 and higher to stay in the program

 

[eLiu]

real analysis - B
intro chem - A
psychology - A
intro biology - A

(Yeah I'm a freshman). Real Analysis is hard...I was really expecting a C, so I'm quite pleased

 

[ElFenix]

Originally posted by: geek4life
what do you get for this semester?

won't find out until next semester starts, most likely

 

[cchen]

Originally posted by: TuxDave

Originally posted by: ReelC00L

Originally posted by: cchen

Originally posted by: ReelC00L
Cryptographic Protocols - B+
Computer Architecture - B
Operating Systems - B

This is my first semester on the way to my PhD in computer engineering. I just needed 3.0+ to keep my assistantship. Apparently, it is hard to get A's, easy to get B's.

you're already in a phd program? anything less than an A in a phd program is considered failing...

That is not the case here. The scaled grades are so rough they'd only have about 5 graduate students a year left if less than A was failing. They give a very small number of A's, many B's, and some C's. The minimum to continue is 3.0.

I guess it's different from how I see it. At UC Berkeley, the graduate class grading goes as.

A = You did well on everything
A- = You're average
B+ = You screwed up somewhere
B = You deserve to fail but we felt pity on you
B- --> F = Professor hates you

It's generally true for most classes. The toughest distribution I dealt with was roughly 50% A and 50% B. Same rules, 3.0 and higher to stay in the program

same here

For doctoral students, strong performance is indicated by grade of A+ or A; good but somewhat marginal performance is indicated by a grade of A- ; and weak performance is indicated by a grade of B+, B or lower. Receiving grades of B+ or lower in two or more courses in any semester is an indication of difficulties

 

[yhelothar]

Crappy community college
Trig: B
Individual lessons: B
Read100: A
wind ensemble: A

 

[yhelothar]

Originally posted by: eLiu
real analysis - B
intro chem - A
psychology - A
intro biology - A

(Yeah I'm a freshman). Real Analysis is hard...I was really expecting a C, so I'm quite pleased

What college? My reading class was the easiest class I've ever taken. It was the most BS I've ever done. We made an outline of an outline FFS!!! The final, all I had to do was make a blueprint of my textbook by making a simple chart that took me 5 minutes, present, BAM A+.

 

[TuxDave]

Originally posted by: virtualgames0

Originally posted by: eLiu
real analysis - B
intro chem - A
psychology - A
intro biology - A

(Yeah I'm a freshman). Real Analysis is hard...I was really expecting a C, so I'm quite pleased

What college? My reading class was the easiest class I've ever taken. It was the most BS I've ever done. We made an outline of an outline FFS!!! The final, all I had to do was make a blueprint of my textbook by making a simple chart that took me 5 minutes, present, BAM A+.

Ok now I'm all confused about what Real Analysis is about.

 

[cchen]

Originally posted by: TuxDave

Originally posted by: virtualgames0

Originally posted by: eLiu
real analysis - B
intro chem - A
psychology - A
intro biology - A

(Yeah I'm a freshman). Real Analysis is hard...I was really expecting a C, so I'm quite pleased

What college? My reading class was the easiest class I've ever taken. It was the most BS I've ever done. We made an outline of an outline FFS!!! The final, all I had to do was make a blueprint of my textbook by making a simple chart that took me 5 minutes, present, BAM A+.

Ok now I'm all confused about what Real Analysis is about.

lol. Real analysis covers real variable theory, including Lebesgue integral, elementary functional analysis, and an introduction to Fourier analysis, etc

 

[Reel]

Originally posted by: cchen

Originally posted by: TuxDave

Originally posted by: ReelC00L

Originally posted by: cchen

Originally posted by: ReelC00L
Cryptographic Protocols - B+
Computer Architecture - B
Operating Systems - B

This is my first semester on the way to my PhD in computer engineering. I just needed 3.0+ to keep my assistantship. Apparently, it is hard to get A's, easy to get B's.

you're already in a phd program? anything less than an A in a phd program is considered failing...

That is not the case here. The scaled grades are so rough they'd only have about 5 graduate students a year left if less than A was failing. They give a very small number of A's, many B's, and some C's. The minimum to continue is 3.0.

I guess it's different from how I see it. At UC Berkeley, the graduate class grading goes as.

A = You did well on everything
A- = You're average
B+ = You screwed up somewhere
B = You deserve to fail but we felt pity on you
B- --> F = Professor hates you

It's generally true for most classes. The toughest distribution I dealt with was roughly 50% A and 50% B. Same rules, 3.0 and higher to stay in the program

same here

For doctoral students, strong performance is indicated by grade of A+ or A; good but somewhat marginal performance is indicated by a grade of A- ; and weak performance is indicated by a grade of B+, B or lower. Receiving grades of B+ or lower in two or more courses in any semester is an indication of difficulties

Our grading scale has no - and no A+. I think the unspoken expectation is for a 3.5 average or better (A's are 4, B+ is 3.5, B is 3.0) but they probably won't kick you out if you are making satisfactory progress and are above 3.0. If you are screwing around, have bad faculty reports, bad committee reports, you probably won't last long below 3.5. Since it is my first semester, I believe I have the leeway to pull it up.

From what I hear though, our distributions aren't nearly so generous as 50% A. It might be worthwhile asking to see the distribution of the grades and my final exams but it has been my experience so far that the teachers in this department are not very accomodating when you attempt to discuss your grades with them but that is a whole other discussion.

I guess a reasonable question for your grading scales is how you define good. Are you defining good as perfect or near perfect scores on every assignment? Are you defining good as class average or better? Are you defining good as average +- 1 standard deviation? I guess there is a lot left to interpretation in your definitions. Can you pin them down a bit more specifically? I get the sense that our final grades are just fit to some arbitrary grade distribution so top 10% get A or whatever the magic percentage is.

Also, I think we might be hijacking this thread. Perhaps we should make our own thread? If one of you (or someone else) chooses to reply to this in another thread, please post a link if you don't mind.

 

[cjgallen]

A
A
A
B

 

[eLiu]

Originally posted by: virtualgames0

Originally posted by: eLiu
real analysis - B
intro chem - A
psychology - A
intro biology - A

(Yeah I'm a freshman). Real Analysis is hard...I was really expecting a C, so I'm quite pleased

What college? My reading class was the easiest class I've ever taken. It was the most BS I've ever done. We made an outline of an outline FFS!!! The final, all I had to do was make a blueprint of my textbook by making a simple chart that took me 5 minutes, present, BAM A+.

huh...? I'm confused...what's an FFS and how does that relate to real analysis...?? btw, it's MIT

 

[TwiceOver]

A A B 3.3gpa

 

[XBoxLPU]

2 As, 2 Bs

 

[MSCoder610]

4 As (Global Geography, Calculus III/ 3D&Vector Calc, Physics: Mechanics, Computer Science intro class (Java))

Edit: Freshman (though 2nd-year classified because of AP credit) at Texas A&M.

 

[UncleWai]

ROFLCOPTER.
I was one of the bottom feeders in a class, I still get a 3.5.

Econometric Econ482 3.5
Economics of properties Rights 3.4
Advanced Macro econ W <==== dropped, was getting a 15/100 average on everything, POS instructor.

 

[magomago]

Originally posted by: jai6638
Algebra 2: A+
Spanish: A+
World History: A+
English: A+
Physics: B+

Am in high school.... got a gpa of 4.13

you don't count


Kinda disspaointed here... a 3.4 but I thought i would get an A in Diff.E.Q. >< Prof was horrible so I studided totally outta the book and went to classes on the last week..on the last day he did convolutions and i didn't too much to it, and it was the basis for like 50% of the test =_= Annoyed me how he totally ignored a lotta things just to focus on this...and i had an A on the midterm so getting a B in the class makes me think "WOOOOW...i REALLY tanked that!"

Eh, just need get thru vector calc and i'm home free on the math side of things




EDIT:


btw, how do your colleges distribute grades?
mine are:
A+/A 4.0
A- 3.7
B+ 3.3
B 3.0
B- 2.7
C+ 2.3
C 2.0
etc.. etc. etc.

 

[Chaotic42]

Got my final grades in.

Calc-A
Health Concepts-A
Chemistry-A
Chem Lab-A
Music-A
English-A
Scientific Reasoning-A

:beer:

 

[ts3433]

All 97% or above (7 classes), but I am a high school freshman, so it's fairly unimpressive.
Band--100
Musicianship I--99
PE/Health--98
Latin I--103
Algebra II--97
English--97
Physics--102.8

 

[3chordcharlie]

I think I only failed 1 course this term.. maybe 2

 

[PowerMacG5]

Alright, all my grades are posted, and got what I thought.

Chemistry Principles for Engineers - A - (Don't know my percent average)
Computer Science II - A - 96.29%
Introductory Economics - B - 87%
Engineering Graphics &amp; CAD - A - >100% (Don't know the final average, but I know it was above 100%)
Multivariable Calculus &amp; Matrix Algebra - A - 101.25%

My GPA comes out to be 3.76 because EG&amp;CAD is only one credit, while the rest are 4 credits. Not bad for a freshman taking 3 sophomore level classes while pledging a fraternity.