what is the difference between the overall GPA and the major GPA of an undergraduate student?
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Your overall GPA is just that, the grade point average.  Every grade you receive is given a point value, which are averaged to get your GPA.\n\nYour major GPA applies to only courses in your major, or chosen field of study, but is otherwise computed the same way.\n\nIf you are majoring in psyc, and have\nPSYC100 3.5\nPSYC101 4.0\nMATH100 1.5\n\nYour major GPA would be the average of your psyc marks, or (3.5 + 4)/2 = 3.75.\nYour overall GPA would be the average of all your marks, or (3.5 + 4.0 + 1.5)/3 = 3.0.
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Generally you can boost your GPA by getting better grades in school.  You get better grades in school by committing yourself to all your homework and hours of study through your academic life.  Hope this helps.
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I finished college with a 3.85 GPA and, I will have to admit, I obsessed over grades. I felt almost like a failure when I received a grade of B.\n\nMy GPA was achieved mostly through hard work but I did not have a difficult major and minors - English major; history and education minors.\n\nI took my master's degree at a university that did not assign traditional grades for graduate courses. Grades included high honors, which was an A+ level; pass, an A or B level; and fail; C or below. I received honors grades for all but three of my courses but I took the easiest of majors - education with an emphasis in testing and counseling. \n\nI considered my graduate work to be much less demanding than my undergraduate work, which included general education courses in several areas for which I had little aptitude.
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the 2 mean different things.\n\n2.2 means you got a lower second class degree - to do with your performance in exams mainly. a GPA is the average of all your grades in all your classes over all 4 years of the US degree, which will have included lots of classes you wouldnt have done at a UK university as we specialise much earlier on, whereas in the states they have all their required courses etc.
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Well, at my school AP grades are weighted so getting a B in AP gives you the same GPA as getting an A in a regular class. As for what's better, getting a B in an AP class at least shows that you're trying to do harder classes and all that, but if you get an A in a regular class but tried just as hard as the person in AP, then it's just as good. So I think it depends on who you are.
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We need some additional information to project what your GPA is.  Here is how after you fill in the blanks.\n\nYour current GPA = 3.30 = Total Grade Points Divided By Total Hours\n\nYour final GPA = (Current Total Grade Points + This Semester Total Grade Points) / (Current Total Hours + 12 hours)\n\nAssuming that each of your classes are three credit hour courses AND that the courses are on a 4 point scale.  This semesters Total Grade Points would be 50 (2*3*3+2*4*4).\n\nPlug the 12, the 50 and your current information into the previous formula and you will have your final GPA.  Your current information can be found on your transcript.
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they are usually specific to a major (vs GE). the numbering of these courses varies from school to school.
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An undergraduate degree is an associates or a bachelors degree while a graduate degree is a masters or a PhD.  Most colleges, including Princeton, have both undergraduate and graduate programs available.
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Though some of the answers above are partly right, here's a better explanation.\n\nA, B, C, D are called Letter Grades where in Students scoring within a range are given a particular "grade" not "marks" for the course/subject.\n\nEach letter grade typically stands for a number a.k.a Point,\n\nA = 4\nB = 3\nC = 2\nD = 1\n\nF = Fail, so course need to be taken again or something.\n\nAn average of all these grade points (numbers 0 to 4)  in all subjects is calulated and is given as the GPA (Grade Point average) , typically on a scale of 0 to 4.\n\nSo a 4.0 GPA is the highest (exceptions are there where more could be scored) and is available for a "straight A" student.\n\nNote that some institutions also award partial grades like A-, B+ etc which are typically 3.75, 3.25 etc
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Undergraduate is the bachelor's degree level, the first four years (usually) of college.  Graduate degrees are masters or doctorates, and you need a bachelor's degree to be admitted to graduate school.  The difference, realistically, is thousands of dollars per year in salary once you graduate.  Also, the difference is specialization:  you can remain pretty general in undergraduate school these days, but you need to decide on a particular area in order to enroll in a graduate program, and they will require that you have certain prerequisites from your undergraduate days.  That's why juniors and seniors need to make those sorts of choices, so they can take the classes that will get them into the graudate school they want.\n\nDoesn't always work, though; people change their minds.  Then you may have to do another year of undergraduate work even after you get your bachelor's degree in order to fulfill all the prerequisites for your graduate program.\n\nGood luck!
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If your GPA is based on a "100" scale, then divide your GPA by 25 to get the 4-point correlation.\n\n(It would be 3.49712)
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Go to www.collegeboard.com and type in the schools. There is tons of information on it, including average GPA.
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GPA is usually calculated on a 4.0 scale.  An "A" is worth 4.0.  A "B" is worth 3.0.  You need to add up all of your scores (e.g. if you had two "B's" and five "A's", then you would add them together to get 26) and divide this number by the total number of scores (e.g. in this example, you would divide 26 by 7, since this was the total number of scores you added up; you get a result of 3.71, which is your cumulative GPA).  The result of this division will be your cumulative GPA.  Keep up the good work!
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This sounds dubious, unethical, and highly likely to backfire on you. If every student could just change his/her grades, then GPAs would have no meaning. Your current school is not going to be fooled by this ruse. Find a moral way to achieve your goals.
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All a higher gpa will get you if you are already at the university level is honors.\n\nIts best to try an understand the material better then it is to strive for a high gpa. Pass your courses and do the best you can to understand everything you are learning.
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Grade Point Average...\n\n4.0=A\n3.0=B\n2.0=C\n1.0=D\n0.0=F\n\nIts just a number that shows colleges how well you do as a student.
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Can't answer that without knowing your school's grading policies - it varies from school to school.  But the 2.25 GPA would generally be BETWEEN a C (2.00) and a C+ (2.33) average (most commonly).