From owner-cse584-sp07-list@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU Wed Apr 25 09:21:09 2007 Received: from ares.cse.buffalo.edu (ares.cse.Buffalo.EDU [128.205.32.79]) by castor.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.13.6/8.12.10) with ESMTP id l3PDL9F2025666 for ; Wed, 25 Apr 2007 09:21:09 -0400 (EDT) Received: from front2.acsu.buffalo.edu (upfront.acsu.buffalo.edu [128.205.4.140]) by ares.cse.buffalo.edu (8.13.6/8.13.6) with SMTP id l3PDL4f1083849 for ; Wed, 25 Apr 2007 09:21:05 -0400 (EDT) Received: (qmail 7879 invoked from network); 25 Apr 2007 13:21:04 -0000 Received: from mailscan8.acsu.buffalo.edu (128.205.7.55) by front2.acsu.buffalo.edu with SMTP; 25 Apr 2007 13:21:04 -0000 Received: (qmail 7835 invoked from network); 25 Apr 2007 13:21:04 -0000 Received: from deliverance.acsu.buffalo.edu (128.205.7.57) by front3.acsu.buffalo.edu with SMTP; 25 Apr 2007 13:21:04 -0000 Received: (qmail 11901 invoked from network); 25 Apr 2007 13:20:57 -0000 Received: from listserv.buffalo.edu (128.205.7.35) by deliverance.acsu.buffalo.edu with SMTP; 25 Apr 2007 13:20:57 -0000 Received: by LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 14.5) with spool id 5033305 for CSE584-SP07-LIST@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU; Wed, 25 Apr 2007 09:20:57 -0400 Delivered-To: cse584-sp07-list@listserv.buffalo.edu Received: (qmail 13268 invoked from network); 25 Apr 2007 13:20:50 -0000 Received: from mailscan4.acsu.buffalo.edu (128.205.6.136) by listserv.buffalo.edu with SMTP; 25 Apr 2007 13:20:50 -0000 Received: (qmail 7834 invoked from network); 25 Apr 2007 13:20:50 -0000 Received: from castor.cse.buffalo.edu (128.205.32.14) by smtp3.acsu.buffalo.edu with SMTP; 25 Apr 2007 13:20:50 -0000 Received: from castor.cse.Buffalo.EDU (rapaport@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by castor.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.13.6/8.12.10) with ESMTP id l3PDKnua025639 for ; Wed, 25 Apr 2007 09:20:49 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from rapaport@localhost) by castor.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.13.6/8.12.9/Submit) id l3PDKn7L025638 for cse584-sp07-list@listserv.buffalo.edu; Wed, 25 Apr 2007 09:20:49 -0400 (EDT) X-UB-Relay: (castor.cse.buffalo.edu) X-PM-EL-Spam-Prob: : 7% Message-ID: <200704251320.l3PDKn7L025638@castor.cse.Buffalo.EDU> Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2007 09:20:49 -0400 Reply-To: "William J. Rapaport" Sender: "Philosophy of Computer Science, Spring 2007" From: "William J. Rapaport" Subject: GRADE CONVERSION FORMULAS To: CSE584-SP07-LIST@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU Precedence: list List-Help: , List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Owner: List-Archive: X-UB-Relay: (castor.cse.buffalo.edu) X-DCC-Buffalo.EDU-Metrics: castor.cse.Buffalo.EDU 1029; Body=0 Fuz1=0 Fuz2=0 X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SUBJ_ALL_CAPS autolearn=no version=3.1.7 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.7 (2006-10-05) on ares.cse.buffalo.edu X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.88.6/3160/Wed Apr 25 01:28:45 2007 on ares.cse.buffalo.edu X-Virus-Status: Clean Status: R Content-Length: 948 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Subject: GRADE CONVERSION FORMULAS ------------------------------------------------------------------------ A student writes: | In your scale of grading, does A- become a 3.7 or something else? | If so what does it become? Thanks. Here are links to the university's grade conversion formulas: undergrad: http://undergrad-catalog.buffalo.edu/policies/grading/explanation.shtml grad: http://www.grad.buffalo.edu/policies/lettergrades.php I think these have too many decimal numbers; here's the scheme I use: undergrad: grad: A 4.0 4.0 A- 3.7 3.7 B+ 3.3 3.3 B 3.0 3.0 B- 2.7 2.7 C+ 2.3 2.3 C 2.0 2.0 C- 1.7 D+ 1.3 D 1.0 1.0 F 0.0 0.0 Then you can convert back from decimals to letters as follows: 3.86-4.0 A 3.51-3.85 A- 3.16-3.50 B+ 2.86-3.15 B 2.51-2.85 B- 2.16-2.50 C+ 1.86-2.15 C 1.51-2.15 1.51-1.85 C- 1.16-1.50 D+ 0.51-1.15 D 0.51-1.50 0 -0.50 F