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posted by [identity profile] curtana.livejournal.com at 02:41pm on 21/05/2003
Some Canadian universities do use GPAs (though I've never heard of a Canadian high school using them), mostly for purposes of comparison with US schools. McGill, where I did my undergrad, had percentiles, letter grades, and GPAs, though some profs used only one of the first two.

To add to the confusion, I know that McMaster, where my husband did his undergrad, has a 12-point GPA system, which may or may not be totally unique.
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posted by [personal profile] owlfish at 02:54pm on 21/05/2003
A 12-point GPA? A point for every plus and minus? I don't know if it's unique or not, but I've certainly never heard of the system before.

In the US, GPAs only applied to how grades were calculated at an institutional level. They were never given - or applied to - a particular class. It sounds like McGill did the same. Some schools in the US using the 4.0 scale will, just to confuse things, award a 4.3 or a 4.5 to reward A+s. Neither my high school nor college did - an A+ counted as equal to an A.
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posted by [identity profile] curtana.livejournal.com at 02:59pm on 21/05/2003
McGill didn't believe in A+ - the highest grade we could get was an A, which encompassed everything over 85%. And yes, I realize I wasn't clear - each individual course was graded with percentage or letter grades, or both, and an overall GPA was calculated for each term. Other schools in Canada do give out 4.3 for A+ grades, though.
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posted by [identity profile] forthright.livejournal.com at 04:15pm on 21/05/2003
Yeah, that's right, the McMaster system was (and I believe still is) a 12-point system where a D- is a 1 and an A+ is a 12. It was a subject of much complaint by students who had conversion difficulties getting into grad schools and professional programs.
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posted by [identity profile] celandineb.livejournal.com at 05:38pm on 13/04/2007
A 12-point GPA system is not unique to McMaster. My undergraduate institution -- in fact I think all five of the associated schools -- used a 12-point scale. It's easier to understand in some ways, I think. I've used it for calculation purposes in classes, on occasion.
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