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[–] Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world 10 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Why bother with the letter grades anyway if you just convert them to numbers? We have a system that works from 1 to 5 where 1 is not a passing grade and anything above that is. The average is then calculated normally.

[–] Bougie_Birdie@piefed.blahaj.zone 6 points 3 days ago

I think it's historic, I suspect the letter grades predate using GPA

To be honest, I didn't even know we did GPA at all until after I got my high school transcript for applying to college. Our report cards gave us our percentage and a letter for each course

As the meme suggests, the whole system is pointless and frankly kind of foolish