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2.5 GPA Is What Letter Grade?

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Rob Facey answered
Grades are standardized measurements of varying levels of comprehension within a subject area. Grades can be assigned in letters (for example, A, B, C, D, or F), as a range (for example 4.0-1.0), as descriptors (excellent, great, satisfactory, needs improvement), in percentages, or, as is common in some post-secondary institutions in some countries, as a grade point average (GPA).

The GPA can be used by potential employers or further post-secondary institutions to assess and compare applicants. A Cumulative Grade Point Average is a calculation of the average of all of a student's grades for all semesters and courses completed up to a given academic term, whereas the GPA may only refer to one term.

Keith Hoskin argues that the concept of grading students' work quantitatively was developed by a tutor named William Farish and first implemented by the University of Cambridge in 1792. Hoskin's assertion has been questioned by Christopher Stray, who finds the evidence for Farish as the inventor of the numerical mark to be unpersuasive. Stray's article clarifies the complex relationship between the mode of examination (testing), in this case oral or written, and the varying philosophies of education these modes imply, both to teacher and student. As a technology, grading both shapes and reflects many fundamental areas of educational theory and practice.

It is difficult to convert GPA to letter grade without knowing exactly which countries you are asking about as every country has their own grading system, either using GPA or Letter grades, or for example of the UK a mixture of both as well as other systems, such as the degree grading system. To give an approximated answer to your question, I will use the scenario that you wish to have a United States of America 2.5 GPA converted to that of the United Kingdom Letter system, both at the equivalent level to UK high school exams. 

Therefore a US 2.5 GPA is equal to a UK letter grade of between a C+ which is suggest as being the same as 2.3 GPA and a B- which is seen as the equivalent of a 2.7 GPA.
Denise Everett Profile
Denise Everett answered
Depending on what scale your school works on, most colleges go on a 4.0 scale it breaks down like this:
A+ (97-100) = 4.0
A (93-96) = 4.0
A- (90-92) = 3.7
B+ (87-89) = 3.3
B (83-86) = 3.0
B- (80-82) = 2.7
C+ (77-79) = 2.3
C (73-76) = 2.0
C- (70-72) = 1.7
D+ (67-69) = 1.3
D (65-66) = 1.0
E/F (below 65) = 0.0
Jillian Peppe Profile
Jillian Peppe answered
2.5 GPA is a  C+  letter grade.
John Mickle Profile
John Mickle answered

A=4, B=3, C=2, D=1 and F=0. An average of grade points on all your courses is the GPA. Some schools use the +/- system with the grades and they use a modified version of assigned grade points to the grades; for example, A+ =4.3, A =4, A- =3.7, B+ =3.3, B = 3.0, B- =2.7, and so on. It is said that Half B and half C makes 2.5 !

Calculate My Grade:GPA means Grade Point Average. They take your grades and average them together.

4- A (1)
3- B (2)
2- C (3)
1- D (4)
Below a 1 is an F

You are in the realm of a C + average which is 2.5

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