Now that it's over

[kyrasantae]

Normally I'd wait until the grades for this term are posted too, but I wanted to show you what my grades were for my first term this year. Current term is much much worse. Trust me on this.

Compare to my grades last year. You can clearly see where my strengths are... ;-)

Fall 2005
Course Code	Course Name	Grade	Eng. Course Units	Grade Points
CHEM 261	Organic Chemistry I	B	4.5	13.50
CIV E 270	Mechanics of Deformable Bodies I	F	4.5	0.00
E E 239	Fundamentals of Electrical Engineering	D+	3.8	4.94
MAT E 252	Materials Science II	C+	3.8	8.74
MATH 209	Calculus III	C	3.5	7.00
PHIL 101	Introduction to Philosophy: Values and Society	B	3.0	9.00
		Total	23.1	43.18
			Term GPA	1.9

Course descriptions are here.

Comments

[thebra.livejournal.com]

ouch

[arumag.livejournal.com]

Now, could you explain which is the best and the worst mark, and what do those Eng. Course Units & Grade Points mean? Thanks! :)

[kyrasantae.livejournal.com]

Letter grades are from A to F, A being the best. There's no E, and an F is a fail. Each letter grade is equivalent to a number between 0.0 and 4.0.

Each course is worth a certain number of credits, or units. In my engineering faculty, this is determined by the number of hours of lecture there is per week for that course, plus half of the number of hours you spend in labs and/or seminars for that course.

The grade points are calculated by taking the number equivalent to the letter grade you got, multiplied by the number of credits the course is worth. Your grade point average (GPA) is then simply the [total grade points] divided by [total credits], rounded to one decimal place.

[chaotic-lady.livejournal.com]

seems like the best that you want to change to Chemistry.

and thanks for the explanation of the system behind the marks.