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GPA question

  • 05-07-2011 02:32PM
    #1
    AmarilloFats
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 910 ✭✭✭


    Hey.

    What GPA is required for a 1st.

    Does it differ from course to course @ UCD?

    Ive looked on website but cannot find anything


Comments

  • #2
    Raphael
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,880 ✭✭✭Raphael


    3.68 or higher.


  • #3
    Princess HLS
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 53 ✭✭Princess HLS


    I got a GPA of 3.4 in my Semester 1 exams. Is that average?


  • #4
    ._.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 334 ✭✭._.


    Princess HLS wrote: »
    I got a GPA of 3.4 in my Semester 1 exams. Is that average?
    That's pretty good.


  • #5
    Tupamaros
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 116 ✭✭Tupamaros


    Bit confused by the grading system. Got 3 B+ (two were 10 credit, one 5 credit) and one A+ (10 credit) and received a GPA of 3.77. Does this make sense and how is it worked out?


  • #6
    Mardy Bum
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,674 ✭✭✭Mardy Bum


    This link explains the grading.


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  • #7
    Tupamaros
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 116 ✭✭Tupamaros


    Mardy Bum wrote: »
    This link explains the grading.

    Thanks for that. This means that I got 10 credits at a GPA of 4.2, and 25 credits at a GPA of 3.6. The net result of this was 3.77, I would have thought the weighting of the 3.6 would have dragged it down further? Sorry, I'm new to using GPAs


  • #8
    Muir
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 948 ✭✭✭Muir


    10 credits * 4.2 GPA = 42
    25 credits * 3.6 GPA = 90
    42+90=132
    132/35 credits = 3.77
    So that's how the weighting works & it is correct.


  • #9
    Tupamaros
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 116 ✭✭Tupamaros


    Muir wrote: »
    10 credits * 4.2 GPA = 42
    25 credits * 3.6 GPA = 90
    42+90=132
    132/35 credits = 3.77
    So that's how the weighting works & it is correct.

    Thanks very much :)


  • #10
    ucd11
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 49 ✭ucd11


    Are resit modules used when calculating your GPA?
    My GPA, seems to be calculated without them, and it says I only did 65 credits, but I did 75 as I had 1 repeat and 2 resits, is this normal?


  • #11
    pljudge321
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,129 ✭✭✭pljudge321


    ucd11 wrote: »
    Are resit modules used when calculating your GPA?
    My GPA, seems to be calculated without them, and it says I only did 65 credits, but I did 75 as I had 1 repeat and 2 resits, is this normal?

    They should be, they are capped at a 2.0 (D-) grade point though.


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  • #12
    Tupamaros
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 116 ✭✭Tupamaros


    Weepsie wrote: »
    Isn't 3.8 a first? It's 70% anyway for a first which would be about the 3.8 mark

    Look at Mardy bum's link, it explains it. 3.68 and above is a first. :cool:


  • #13
    Muir
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 948 ✭✭✭Muir


    For resits and GPA, if you resat them in Sem 1 this year for Sem 2 of last year, the GPA would be for Sem 2 last year & the credits would show up for then. I think that's how it works anyway.

    & a firsts is defintely 3.68.


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