Random tots #20
Freshman... Sophomore... Junior... Senior... CAP vs GPA...
was reading "The Rule of Four" and realised the word sophomore came up very often... being a person with a very limited vocab... i dun really understand what the word mean... as such... i did a search in Wikipedia...
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
In the USA, where undergraduate degree courses commonly last four years, the following terms are used:
A freshman (or, frosh) is a first-year student in college or university, or, chiefly in the United States, in high school. (This word came from England, but is now used far more frequently in America.)
A sophomore is a second-year student. Etymologically, the word means 'wise fool'; consequently sophomoric means "pretentious, bombastic, inflated in style or manner; immature, crude, superficial" (according to the Oxford English Dictionary). Coming from the Greek sophos, meaning wise, and moros meaning moronic.
A junior is a student in the third year of high school or college.
A senior is a student in the fourth and last year at a high school, college, or university.
so i am now a junior... will be a senior soon... but how abt those people with just 3 years in uni? maybe they can skip the sophomore stage... how abt those with more than 4 years like archi and medicine?
in NUS, people usually compare their grades in terms of CAP which stands for Cumulative Average Point... in US, the equivalent will be GPA or Grade Point Average...
and just a matter of curiosity (and lots of it as a result of boredom in office)... i did a search on Wikipedia on GPA too...
Grade point average
Grade point average (GPA) is a number that represents the average of a student's grades during his or her time at an institution. Usually it is weighted by number of credits given for the course.
Most high schools and nearly all colleges in the United States use a "four-point" system, where numerical values are applied to grades as follows:
A = 4
B = 3
C = 2
D = 1
F = 0
FF/G (if given) = -1
This allows grades to be easily averaged. Additionally, many schools add .3 for a "+" grade and subtract .3 for a "−" grade. Thus, a B+ yields a 3.3 whereas an A− yields a 3.7. A+'s, if given, are usually assigned a value of 4.0 (equivalent to an A) due to the common assumption that a 4.00 is the best possible grade-point average, although 4.3 is awarded at some institutions. In some places, .33 instead of .3 is added for a "+" grade and subtracted for a "−" grade.
Some high schools, to bolster their students' chances in college admissions, will give higher numerical grades for difficult courses, often referred to as a weighted GPA. For example, a common conversion system used in honors and advanced placement courses is:
A = 5
B = 4
C = 3
D = 1
F = 0
so next time if ur counterpart in US asks abt ur GPA and u only know your CAP, u can always do a conversion with the above info... think SMU uses the GPA too...
according to Academic Ranking of World Universities 2004, Harvard is the best university in the world... and my institution, NUS is in the 101-152 range... but i tot NUS was one of the top 20 universities? read this... and this... maybe these ranking uses different indicators?
was reading "The Rule of Four" and realised the word sophomore came up very often... being a person with a very limited vocab... i dun really understand what the word mean... as such... i did a search in Wikipedia...
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
In the USA, where undergraduate degree courses commonly last four years, the following terms are used:
A freshman (or, frosh) is a first-year student in college or university, or, chiefly in the United States, in high school. (This word came from England, but is now used far more frequently in America.)
A sophomore is a second-year student. Etymologically, the word means 'wise fool'; consequently sophomoric means "pretentious, bombastic, inflated in style or manner; immature, crude, superficial" (according to the Oxford English Dictionary). Coming from the Greek sophos, meaning wise, and moros meaning moronic.
A junior is a student in the third year of high school or college.
A senior is a student in the fourth and last year at a high school, college, or university.
so i am now a junior... will be a senior soon... but how abt those people with just 3 years in uni? maybe they can skip the sophomore stage... how abt those with more than 4 years like archi and medicine?
in NUS, people usually compare their grades in terms of CAP which stands for Cumulative Average Point... in US, the equivalent will be GPA or Grade Point Average...
and just a matter of curiosity (and lots of it as a result of boredom in office)... i did a search on Wikipedia on GPA too...
Grade point average
Grade point average (GPA) is a number that represents the average of a student's grades during his or her time at an institution. Usually it is weighted by number of credits given for the course.
Most high schools and nearly all colleges in the United States use a "four-point" system, where numerical values are applied to grades as follows:
A = 4
B = 3
C = 2
D = 1
F = 0
FF/G (if given) = -1
This allows grades to be easily averaged. Additionally, many schools add .3 for a "+" grade and subtract .3 for a "−" grade. Thus, a B+ yields a 3.3 whereas an A− yields a 3.7. A+'s, if given, are usually assigned a value of 4.0 (equivalent to an A) due to the common assumption that a 4.00 is the best possible grade-point average, although 4.3 is awarded at some institutions. In some places, .33 instead of .3 is added for a "+" grade and subtracted for a "−" grade.
Some high schools, to bolster their students' chances in college admissions, will give higher numerical grades for difficult courses, often referred to as a weighted GPA. For example, a common conversion system used in honors and advanced placement courses is:
A = 5
B = 4
C = 3
D = 1
F = 0
so next time if ur counterpart in US asks abt ur GPA and u only know your CAP, u can always do a conversion with the above info... think SMU uses the GPA too...
according to Academic Ranking of World Universities 2004, Harvard is the best university in the world... and my institution, NUS is in the 101-152 range... but i tot NUS was one of the top 20 universities? read this... and this... maybe these ranking uses different indicators?
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