Scoring and Grading
Score Calculator • Check Your Current Score Record
This page has not been revised and updated. Use it only for approximations.
Scoring Guide, Letter-Grade and 4-Point (GPA) Conversion

6-level scoring guide

A-F grade

4-point A-F system

exemplary

6

A(+)

4(.33)

5.33

A

4

out-standing

5

A-

3.67

4.67

B+

3.33

4.33

B

3

sufficient

4

B-

2.67

nearly sufficient

3

C+

2.33

2.33

C

2

deficient

2

C-

1.67

minimal

1

D

1
Grade Weighting & Calculation

Activity/Assignment

%

short assignments & in-class performance (attendance, participation)

10

Kontext vocabulary worksheets

15

Projects

25

Oral Tests

25

Written Tests

25

Total

100

Your portfolio must contain the items listed above, along with any revision that you want to have considered in your final grade. Also put into your portfolio any items that document your attendance and in-class activity, such as brief writing exercises. If your instructor e-mailed you anything of importance in response to your emailed activities, include printouts of that as well.
Score Calculator for First-Year German

Like the course itself, this score calculator uses the standard 6-point scoring system, where 4 is sufficient. See the table at the top of this page for conversion to A-F letter grades.

The score calculator is intended ONLY as a way of estimating your eventual grade as based on what you know about your scores up to now, combined with your predictions or hopes about future scores. It does NOT include incidental assignments, class performance, or penalties for poor attendance, which together count for 10% of your grade. So if you enter a 4 for every assignment, test and project, your raw score will amount to only 3.6 (90% of 4.0). To estimate how the rest of your performance might affect your grade, add .1 to the calculated score for each level you think you may achieve in the "incidental" category. So if your "incidental" performance is scored as 4, add .4 to the calculated score of 3.6 and it will total the 4.

A special intent of the score calculator is to help you see how your grade can be improved if you revise your work and submit it for re-scoring. Raising scores from, say, 3s to 4s can bring a C+ up to a B-.

Use the pull-down menus to enter scores for the various items. If you do not enter a score for a particular item, the calculator will completely ignore it, rather than treat it as an automatic zero. You must, however, enter at least one score in each of the 4 major categories.

Numbers (#_ etc.) refer to sequence within the quarter, NOT to Kontexts. Thus in spring quarter, vocabulary worksheet #1 may be for Kontext 15, #2 for Kontext 16, and so on.

Kontext vocabulary worksheets (15%)

oral tests (25%)

writing tests (25%)

projects (25%)

#1

#5

#1

#1

#1

#2

#6

#2

#2

#2

#3

#7

#3

#3

#3

#4

#8

Check Your Current Score Record
NOTE: Currently available only to Fischer section.

Enter below ALL digits of your student identification number
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Enter below the FOUR digits of your course password and then click on "Show Scores", select your section, and click on "Show Scores".
Current scores for:
Kontext vocabulary worksheets (15%) oral tests (25%) writing tests (25%) projects (25%)
#1 #5 #1 #1 #1
#2 #6 #2 #2 #2
#3 #7 #3 #3 #3
#4 #8

total vocabulary score: total oral test score: total writing test score: total project score:
Your current score (on the 6-point scale) is:

This score does NOT include incidental assignments, class performance, or penalties for poor attendance, which together count for 10% of your grade. To see how to figure in your estimate of that part of your grade, go to the course score calculator.

Please check that your SSN is indeed correct, and that your own record of your scores on completed activities agrees with what is displayed here. In case of difference, the definitive score is NOT what is displayed here, but rather the score as determined by the original documents and your instructor record of them.

Report errors / send comments to your instructor or to Dr. Fischer (email).