GPA proves to” be confusing for students

Murphy Reporter . * Staf

Entering another new school year, something important that all students must pay attention to, even freshmen, are their grades. A high GPA is beneficial for college.

‘Tm not really worried about my GPA,” freshman Jeanna Croft said. A GPA is a grade point average of your classes. Every student has a paper in his or her homeroom folder that lists their current and past courses and the specific grade earned for each course. At the end of each semester, an averagé is found and that is the GPA given for that semester.

On the sheet, a column of numbers is found in the upper-tight hand corner. The first number is credits eamed. This is the total number of credits currently achieved. Underneath is thecredits attempted. Ifacourse was failed, these two numbers willbe different. The thirdnumber isthe standard GPA. This isoverallgrade point average accomplished. Fourth isthe weighted GPA, which includes AP classes for those students who have taken AP courses. An AP course is worth 5.00pointsinstead oftheusual 4.00,which equalsa1.Ifastudentin an AP course receives a2, they still receive 4.00 points, which isequivalenttoa1.Thefifthnumberisthetotal class rank points, and is determined by multiplying the GPA times the total mark points (thetotalmarkpointsbeing 4.00 for a 1, 3.00 for a2, 2.00 for a3,and 1.00fora 4).The lastnumber in the column, class rank, is simply the total class rank points number put in numerical orderwith allclassmates in thestudent’scurrentgrade.

Toseeanupdated versionofthis paper, seeyour homeroom teacher or. advisor.