LogFAQs > #914354159

Getting an A- drops your GPA, I never got anything lower then an A- and graduated with a 3.97 which was very frustrating.

Sadly my college had 30% of the grade based on team assignments, there was pretty much no way I could have done better then I did. So yeah, unless you change the grading system, even making it something like a 3.5 GPA would probably not work.

I would be ok with a min of a 3.0 GPA in order to get student loans/grants etc though, at least that would motivate the other students to actually DO THEIR FREAKING WORK instead of just trying to cost by with C's based mostly on the efforts of team mates.

My school had something like 20% of the grade based on participation, 30% on team assignments and 50% on individual assignments, papers etc.

A lazy student could basically turn in total crap for their own work, get only 20% on average on individual assignments and still pass the class with a C as long as the team assignments were A's and the student participated (showed up for class etc).

You would probably not be amazed at how many lazy students there were that took advantage of that.
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