Grading Score

High school grades were so easy to calculate and looked like it followed a clear grading scale. However, college seems to grade things differently. In high school, grades always started with an “A” and depending on what you got on all of your assignments, tests, and quizzes, that “A” will either go up or it will go down. In college, you do not start out with a letter but instead, you calculate all of your scores from the very start of the semester to the very end, and whatever you have calculated will be your overall grade. High school and college are very different in terms of academics and how challenging they are, but it is not understandable why the grading criteria is not consistent for both of these institutions. Following rules throughout the education system is mostly a major concern for high school teachers. D Royce Sadler, a Senior Assessment Scholar at the University of Queensland, Australia, explains that most teachers would use a scale with percentages in high …show more content…
Some professors will assign extra credit, and some will not. Pamela Royster and Jacob Gross say, “Extra credit is something all students would chase after because it gives them an advantage in achieving higher grades so they can bank some higher points for their overall GPA.” Nowadays, students have been so dependent on extra credit and strive for it every time. Burkhart says that in high school, teachers tend to reward students for doing their best at the courses and college professors are more than willing to help students who show a great amount of effort into their classes by maybe providing them with extra credit. Extra credit is something that students should not be looking for all the time because every professor is different, and if students do not do well in certain courses, there are chances that extra credit may or may not be given so they should keep up with their studies at all