Calculating the average of your subjects is a good skill that should be acquired: it allows you to keep track of your progress and to know if you need to work harder for that grade you want to achieve. Read below to learn how to calculate your grade and to determine how much you still need to take to reach a certain average.
Steps
Method 1 of 6: Score System
Step 1. Find out if you are in a scoring system
Before calculating your grade, you need to figure out if your teacher is using a scoring system or a weighted system. With the former, everything you do in class will be worth a certain number of points. Find your score on your assignment or simply ask your teacher to explain how you will be graded.
Step 2. Determine the total number of scores earned
Look at your list, add the numbers listed next to your assignments or ask your teacher to determine the total number of available scores. If you are trying to find out what your grade is right now, add up only the points you have scored so far with the checks carried out. If you want to guess the grade you will get in total, you have to ask your teacher for the total number of points you can take.
Step 3. Determine the total number of points you have earned by adding up all the individual scores you have earned from your homework, tests and queries
If you are trying to guess at what grade you will finish school, you will have to guess how much you will get on future assignments. You can guess these figures by choosing a score number similar in percentage to the ones you've always taken or you can choose a higher value, to see what would happen if you studied harder, or lower, to see what could happen if you failed yours. evidence
Step 4. Determine your percentage
Now take the total number of points obtained and divide by the total available scores. Points can only be used for assessments made so far, or you can use global assessments for the entire course. It depends on the information you have and your goals.
An example of this calculation would be: John has completed ten assignments and one test. Altogether, these assignments were worth 200 points. Mario adds up his scores and finds a score of 175. Find the grade as a percentage by calculating 175/200 = 0, 87 or 87%, which is his grade with respect to the overall rating
Method 2 of 6: Weighted Votes
Step 1. Find out if you are using weighted assessments
The teacher can use a weighted grading system. This means that your work will still be in points, but those points will be based on the category in which the object of the evaluation falls. The most common categories include homework, tests, participation, quizzes and the final exam.
- Each category will be worth a certain percentage of your vote. To get a good grade, you need to achieve all or most of the points in each category. However, taking fewer points in a category that deserves only a small percentage of your grade won't affect your rating that much.
- For ease of calculation, we assume that each category is worth a certain number of points equal to its percentage weight: for example, a category that "weighs" 20% will correspond to 20 points out of a total number of 100, which should make significantly more easy to calculate your grade.
- Each teacher gives different priorities to different aspects of the assessment, based on their own teaching philosophy and on what they consider most important. For example, some teachers give more weight to the final exam, while others consider attendance more.
Step 2. Calculate your percentage for each category
Using the same method described above, try to figure out your percentage point for each aspect of the assessment.
If you are trying to figure out how much you will take overall in that matter, you will have to guess how much you will take with the work you have not yet completed
Step 3. Convert these percentages to numbers
Multiply that percentage score by the weight of the category to find out how many points you have earned. For example, if you earned 95% in a 20% weighted entry (0.95 x 20 = 19), you will earn 19 points for that category.
Step 4. Add up the resulting numbers for each category to get your overall percentage
You can compare it with the graph below to find your grade in the form of a letter.
Method 3 of 6: Increase your rating
Step 1. Determine what percentage and how many points you want
To understand by how much you need to increase your grade with a points system, you first need to decide which overall letter grade you want and what the corresponding percentage is (you can use the table below).
- Then use this percentage to determine how many points, out of the total available, are needed to reach this percentage.
- Compare the number of points already earned against the amount of points that are needed to achieve the desired grade. Compare this number to the score for the school workload that you have not yet taken. If the number of points available is small compared to what is needed to obtain that grade, you will not be able to achieve the desired rating without some form of extra credits.
Step 2. Ask your teacher to help you with weighted grades
Calculating what you need to do to raise a weighted score is much more difficult, as there are so many different factors to consider. The simplest method will be to ask your teacher for help and advice.
Focus on doing best in the subjects that give you the most credit. This will increase your rating faster. However, if class ratings with a lighter load are easier to raise, for example by increasing attendance, then you shouldn't ignore them
Step 3. Try to get extra credits, which, for any ranking system, will help improve your grade
The more the extra work is worth, the more it will raise the rating. However, if your teacher uses weighted grades and puts extra credits in a category that weighs less, you will get a smaller increase. Ask your teacher how he evaluates the extra credit before proceeding.
Method 4 of 6: Standard Assessment vs. Evaluation Based on Ranking
Step 1. Try to understand the standard assessment
Your teacher can use other methods to determine your total grade. It is important to know which system you are using before doing too many calculations. If your subject is graded using the standard grading, the methods above should accurately predict your grade.
Standard grading is a system where, for all your work, you can earn a certain number of points that automatically translate into your grade
Step 2. Rank-based classification is a more complicated system that has been adopted by some teachers and schools
In this system, all the grades obtained by all your classmates will be placed on a curve. Most students will receive an average grade, while students who score higher or lower than the average will receive proportionately higher or lower scores. It will therefore be the point where you are on the curve to determine your final grade: all this procedure can complicate the calculations.
- For example, you can take an A (even if you only took 85% of the test correctly) if all your classmates took less than you.
- This system can be used to determine your overall or partial grade. Sometimes teachers will only apply it to a final exam, for example.
Method 5 of 6: Literal Rating Scale
Step 1. Convert your percentages into a letter-marked rating
It may happen that you want to convert percentages to letters. Alternatively, you may want to know the percentage of a particular grade that the teacher has only provided the letter grade. The grading scale varies greatly according to grade, but this is the most common.
- A = 93 -100%
- A - = 90 - 92%
- B + = 87- 89%
- B = 83 - 86%
- B - = 80 - 82%
- C + = 77 - 79%
- C = 73 - 76%
- C - = 70 - 72%
- D + = 67 - 69%
- D = 63 - 66%
- D - = 60 - 62%
- F = 0 - 59%
Method 6 of 6: Calculate your GPA (Grade Point Average)
Step 1. Calculate your GPA
The GPA (or overall average) is used to determine the level of performance in all subjects. This average is often used to determine which type of school for a higher grade than the current one you will be admitted to.
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Your GPA is calculated by assigning a certain number of points, based on the grade you got for that subject versus how many credits it was worth in total and dividing the total by the number of credit hours. The points awarded for a one-credit course are listed below (for courses above the unit credit, multiply the score by the number of credits).
- A = 4
- A - = 3, 7
- B + = 3, 3
- B = 3
- B - = 2, 7
- C + = 2, 3
- C = 2
- C - = 1, 7
- D + = 1, 3
- D = 1
- D - = 0.7
- F = 0
