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My rival is here (Extra Fabulous) (cdn.imgchest.com)
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[–] 12 points 1 year ago (4 children)

As a non-American I am not really familiar with GPA. Is the joke that they both have really low scores?

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  • [–] 21 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Yes. The scores aren't bad so much as they're not particularly good. They're barely skating by with those scores, but a 2.0 will still let you graduate at most colleges.

    GPA stands for Grade Point Average. Assignments that score 90–100% get an A. 80–89% are Bs. 70–79% are Cs. 60–69% are Ds. Everything below that is an F. Don't ask me what happened to E. I don't know that's just how it is.

    Your GPA is a reflection of your average scores for all your assignments. Usually people mean GPA to refer to their cumulative GPA from all of their classes, not just one. A 4.0 GPA means you average an A on every assignment. 3.0 means you average Bs. 2.0 means you average Cs. 1.0 means you average Ds. 0.0 means you average Fs. So a 3.8 GPA would be good because it means you're scoring As and Bs on your assignments. A 2.0 would not be great because it means you're consistently averaging Cs (either lots of Cs on assignments, or lots of Bs and Ds averaging to a C, or some combination like that).

    It's possible I messed some of this up because this is stupid and confusing and needlessly convoluted, but the tldr is that yes, a 2.0 and 2.1 GPA are not particularly exciting. That said, Cs get degrees.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    I mean yeah you covered it well for someone completely unfamiliar. Adding in the unit hour component would probably be overboard.

    That being said, the short version of that is "harder" classes or classes the university expects to take more time get weighted higher than ones that don't. So an A in a 4 unit hour class and a B in a 3 unit hour class would give you a 3.6 GPA, rather than a 3.5

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago*

    Yes.

    Then again some highschools including the public ones sometimes decide they will calculate GPA differently to be unique and quirky.

    Like that time my highschool decided they will calculate it unweighted and out of 3 instead of 4

    I jad to convince colleges I am applying that 2.8 is an average sized GPA.

    (Weighted GPA means if you are taking a course like advanced physics, they will count it slightly higher to make GPA fair. Since people taking normal physics would have better grades while learning less otherwise)

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    • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Love that misspelling of genius

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    • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I'd love an epic battle anime between the two rivals for most mediocre anime fighter.

    Like you've got your Gokus and Vegetas fighting in the background against the world destroying threat but we're locked in on Trunks and Yamcha having beef.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    and they accidentally do something that explodes the bad guy, everyone stops and looks around and sees that they did it, and immediately they go back to fighting over which one of them Totally Intended To Do That

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