[QUOTE="namby_trojan"]ok, thanks for the replies, but I just don't get it. How is it possible for someone who got 87% average at highest in Canada, got 98% average in U.S.??gameguy6700
I dont really understand the question, but I'm assuming you mean they had an 87% average in Canada, then when they moved to the US that transferred over to a 98%. If that's the case, the answer probably lies in the GPA system. The Canadian school they went to probably took the percentage they got in each class, added it together, then divided by the number of classes taken. So if they got a bunch of low 90's (90, 91, 92), high 80's (87, 88, 89), they would have gotten an 87% in the Canadian system. But if they moved down to the US to a school that first uses the percentage mark in each class to assign a letter grade (such as A and B) without using a +/- system to differentiate between a high grade and a low grade, and from there assigns those letter grades a new numerical 4.0 scale grade (A = 4, B = 3, etc.), and then takes that 4.0 scale grade to get the average, their average mark would have skyrocked if they got mostly low 90's. So for example (And let me emphasize that I'm just going to list off random numbers. I know they wont add up to an 87 mean, I'm just trying to make a point):
Kid's grades: 90, 91, 90, 92, 90, 72Â
Canadian system: (90+91+90+92+90+72)/6 = 87
US system: 90 = A = 4, 91 = A = 4, 90 = A = 4, 92 = A = 4, 92 = A = 4, 72 = C = 2
(4+4+4+4+4+2)/6 = 3.9 = 98
So the Canadian system goes by the mean average, the US system goes by the median average (when done correctly, which in this case it wasn't. had it used a +/- system to discern a low A from a high A, it would have given him a much more representative average).
It's not that his marks were transfered. Ok, he finished Gr. 8 with 87%, and then moved to U.S. and started Gr. 9 and got 98% average. That's nearly impossible. wtf?
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