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- abbreviation grade point average
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- noun
Grade Point Average
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a measure of a student's academic achievement at a college or university; calculated by dividing the total number of grade points received by the total number attempted
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Examples
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I even got invited by my advisor, Dr. Underburg, to join the debate team, since my GPA is a 3.4 on a 4.0 scale right now.
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The president's list requires a term GPA of 3.8 or at least 12 quality point academic hours.
newsleader.com - 2009
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When your GPA is 3.75 and you went through 27 years of studying, you begin to realize that most people are stupid and have no clue.
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My daughter, Hannah, has a 4.2 GPA, is fascinated by the events surrounding Pearl Harbor, has held the same job since she was 15, and is sunny and popular.
Tamar Abrams: The Kid is All Right Tamar Abrams 2010
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At research universities, I think it would be a good idea to pay closer attention to evals, though I would strongly recommend that this be coupled with a system that fights grade inflation — e.g., by considering relative rank within a class more than absolute letter grades when GPA is being calculated. tomemos Says:
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As long as your GPA is strong and you are involved you should be fine.
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In my classroom, I've built a detailed profile, and I've been a student for 6 months, so the systems knows a good bit about me: I enjoy working in a learning team, I prefer podcast to video content, my GPA is .5 away from my goal, and, well, I struggle to turn things in on time.
Angie McQuaig: How To Hyper-Personalize Education Angie McQuaig 2010
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•Grades matter: San Diego State assistants get no bonus money — even for a national title — unless the team's scholarship players 'average GPA is at least 2.3, at least 75% of the scholarship players have at least a 2.2 GPA and the team's APR is at least 925.
Assistant football coaches see pay rise with unique clauses 2009
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In my classroom, I've built a detailed profile, and I've been a student for 6 months, so the systems knows a good bit about me: I enjoy working in a learning team, I prefer podcast to video content, my GPA is .5 away from my goal, and, well, I struggle to turn things in on time.
Angie McQuaig: How To Hyper-Personalize Education Angie McQuaig 2010
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She needs to go to school and get a graduate degree -- she can't do that, her GPA is not high enough to get in grad school!
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