1/30/2024 0 Comments Mit grading percentages![]() ![]() This is evident by many statements published by universities clarifying this concern on their admissions websites: Yale While applying, I myself didn’t convert my percentage to GPA in most of my applications (unless a school required it). happily accept your percentage score, as they know the grading norms in India. Universities like Harvard, Yale, Standford, Wharton, etc. Top American Universities Specifically Ask You to Not Convert Your Grade to a GPA In fact, universities ask you to submit actual transcripts (or grade-cards) that you receive from your school or college, so they’ll know that they awarded you marks, not a GPA. So simply stating your actual marks that you received is the best idea. In fact, they have a pretty good idea of what percentage score is good, depending on your college or degree. The top ranking American universities frequently receive applications from the top Indian colleges, and therefore, their admission officers are already aware that here in India, schools and colleges don’t award GPA. This will help the admissions officer to do their own calculation for their internal discussion purposes. So the easiest thing to do would be to just write your percentage there out of 100. When you’re filling in the application for most American colleges, you’ll see they ask your GPA and there, you can fill in how much your GPA is out of. ![]() The thing you should actually be asking is, whether you even need to convert your percentage to a GPA. Should You Convert Your Percentage to GPA? However, with a 3.0 GPA, you’ll be considered just an above average student in the US.Īs you can see, this system on how to calculate your GPA fails to really talk about how the student performed academically, and this doesn’t do justice to their marks. 89% marks would mean, in India, that you were among the top 5% in your class for many colleges (depending on how the college awards marks). Similarly, if you received 89% marks in college and wanted to apply to an American university for master’s, you’ll convert your GPA to a 3.0. ![]() You’ll be rejected before they read your Indian name. However, if you apply to a good American university with a 0.0 GPA, they won’t even look at your application. Now, for a 60% score in India is not exactly considered bad. ![]() If you see the above table, for someone who receives a 60% average score in college, they get a 0.0 GPA. 2. Indian Grading System Works Differently When You Consider Class Averages Therefore, any comparison would not be right. For our colleges, these individual marks or grades then get converted to a total or average percentage which we calculate for every semester in college, and finally, for all the years combined.Īs you can understand, this cumulative percentage doesn’t take into account exactly how long they were or how many hours we spend in each class. The Indian schooling system, on the other hand, awards percentages or points to students, which are a cumulative score for the marks a student receives differently for each class, depending on the subject. For example, some classes may be 3 hours long (3 credits) and so on. GPA also takes into account, as I mentioned above, the credits you earned in each class, which depends on how long each of the classes was. Indian Grading System Doesn’t Take Class Hours into Account This chart shows how to convert letter grade or percentage points to GPA:į = 60% or less: GPA = 0 2 Reasons Why GPA Doesn’t Work for Indian Grading SystemĪs I mentioned before, one should ideally never convert the percentage score from Indian schools to a GPA on 4.0 scale. You can calculate grade point average by dividing the total amount of grade points you earn in a class by the total amount of credit hours you applied for the class. Also, when students are applying to American (or Canadian) colleges or universities from other countries, they may encounter applications asking you to fill in your GPA. Similarly, some subjects may require a minimum GPA for students to take it up. Just like in India, some colleges may require a minimum GPA for students to apply or continue. Simply speaking, GPA is the cumulative average of all of a student’s grades in all their classes. In the US, schools, colleges and universities use a number calculated from the grades you earn in classes called GPA. And for percentages, they are easy to calculate and compare, too. GPAįor Indian students, marks are always very important – everyone wants to know how many marks you got and what percentage you got. So today, I thought I’d clarify some of these concerns by talking about whether you need to calculate your GPA as an Indian student, and if so, how to convert your percentage to GPA. ![]()
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