#it's 3.30am and im writing about gpas

[danielnelsen]

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Congrats! Oh btw, can I ask you a question about your marking system? like, does the “unit” mark mean the final course mark (aka the grade or gpa)

thanks!!

im not 100% sure what you’re asking..i think the answer is probably ‘yes’ (like..that 56 is my final mark for my whole maths unit, yeah), but im bored rn so ill just do a rundown of how my uni’s grading system works (and just how units work in general) bc im a fucking nerd:

so you’re typically doing a few units each semester (most people do 4 units per semester, but you only have to do 3 to be considered full time, it’ll just make your degree take a bit longer). you do your assignments for each unit throughout the semester and most units will have an exam at the end that’s typically work around 50% of the whole grade for the unit. for each unit, the assignments will be weighted so that they total 100 example: for my maths unit, we had three hand-in assignments and a mid-semester test, all of which were out of 20 but ultimately worth 10% of the final grade each (so 17/20 in one assignment contributes 8.5/10 to your grade); then the final exam was out of 100 marks but worth 60% of the final grade (so my mark of 37.5/100 in the exam gave me 22.5/60)

for each unit you get a final grade (out of 100), which translates across to your gpa (out of 7) based on the letter grade, which is best explained by a table imo:

so i did 3 units this semester and ill get a pass in maths (4/7), probably a distinction in psychology (6/7) and i have no idea what ill get for cognitive science, but let’s say it’ll be a credit (5/7). that’ll give me an overall gpa of the average of those, so.. 5.000 (bc apparently it’s done to 3 decimal places)

so..yeah, that’s how it works. that’s probs all a bunch of useless info that you really didnt care about lmaooo and it’s generally how gpas work so if ur at all familiar with gpas then you’d know it already. it’s just very new to me bc the concept of a gpa doesnt exist in high schools here. i could rant about how much i hate the high school atar system (and how it works) but no one would read that lmao.. it’s so awful tho

tbh sure i know all about how the gpa stuff works at my uni, but i dont care much about it bc my gpa doesnt actually matter and for most people i dont think it matters much? i think it’s important for some course transfers and maybe admission to certain programs like honours or stuff, i have no idea.. as long as you pass a unit, it’s gonna count towards your degree (eg, for my base degree [without honours] i have to do 24 units and i dont get an extra reward for getting better than a pass). if i want to get into my honours year i need to have an average of 70+ for all my psych units and 75+ for all third year psych subjects, but my actual gpa doesnt matter