Rounding up grades

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I just finished my first semester. I had an overall grade of 93.6 percent in Pharm. You need 94 to make an A, so I missed an A by .4 of a percent. My school does not round up grades, otherwise I would have had an A. Is this a normal trend with other schools, or is it just mine?

Specializes in Psychiatric Mental Health.

I can understand trying to be fair by not rounding up a grade, but be for real, if you are at the verge of getting a higher grade why not? For instance you have a 89.6, that is the difference between an (A) and a (B) which will boost up your grade point. But you thinks that's bad. A girl in my sister's clinicals had to make a 77 to finish nursing school and graduate a week later, she made a 76.4:down: and her instructors did not round up. I mean just one point kept her from graduating that is insane.:angryfire

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Specializes in ED.

Our school does round up from 0.5 and above. An A is 92% (or 93?) so if you get a 91.5 you still have an A. I'm not sure about the reverse though if you are close to failing, as in 76.5, I think they still do round in that situation.

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my school dosent round eather but im ok with that. Im just gonna work harder next semester.

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Our school does round up from 0.5 and above. An A is 92% (or 93?) so if you get a 91.5 you still have an A. I'm not sure about the reverse though if you are close to failing, as in 76.5, I think they still do round in that situation.

I found out recently that, luckily, my school rounds up. I had an 89.87 average last quarter and they rounded it to a 90, which is a 4.0/A.

I would've been really sad if they didn't round because the next grade down is a 3.3/B.

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A B is 3.3? It's always been 3.0 at every school I've attended... My school happens to round, but whether yours does or not should be clearly stated in your syllabi at the beginning of each semester. My school has standard grades for every class, so with rounding, a 92.5 is an A and a 92.49 is a B. A 74.5 is a C and passes the class, and a 74.49 is an F. There are no exceptions or arguments, and we know where we stand all semester since our grades are posted on Blackboard. Our clinicals are also pass/fail, so despite the fact that I've earned 100 on each care plan so far, it doesn't help my grade in class.

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A B is 3.3? It's always been 3.0 at every school I've attended... My school happens to round, but whether yours does or not should be clearly stated in your syllabi at the beginning of each semester. My school has standard grades for every class, so with rounding, a 92.5 is an A and a 92.49 is a B. A 74.5 is a C and passes the class, and a 74.49 is an F. There are no exceptions or arguments, and we know where we stand all semester since our grades are posted on Blackboard. Our clinicals are also pass/fail, so despite the fact that I've earned 100 on each care plan so far, it doesn't help my grade in class.

Sorry, I meant 87%-89% is a B+, which is a 3.3. Percentages and grade points go down from there so 3.0 = B. There are no minuses, e.g. A- or B-

Our syllabus simply had "90% or above = A" but did not state the rounding policy, other than to specify that 72.99% is a failure and is NOT rounded up to 73%.

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Specializes in Dialysis.

my school rounds. then there was a test which was graded on a curve, due to so many ppl failing it. all grades were brought up 7 points. and some ppl still failed!

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Our registrar's office also only accepts whole number grades, therefore a 79.5 is rounded up to a 80, a 79.4 is rounded down to a 79. Though depending on the instructor, he/she might sumbit an 80 for a student that recieved 79.4.

Since both rounding up and down occurs, I think its fair.

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Specializes in OR Peri Operative.

My school rounds up.

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Specializes in Psych ICU, addictions.

Our school does not round grades--they have the grading system set up so that each test question is worth 3 points. At the end of the semester, all the points from all the tests are added up: you need a total of X number of points for a C, Y number of points for a B and Z number of points for an A (the points needed for each grade change with each class).

There's no decimals involved: if you don't make Z number of points, you don't get the A, that's it. One classmate fell one point short of the A and was burned up by it. But she didn't make the total, so she got a B.

We are also given little opportunities to earn extra credit points throughout the semester which would be applied to the final grade.

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