How do you raise it when you have so many hours already? say 86 hours
2007-12-09 16:27:58 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Education & Reference ➔ Higher Education (University +)
You're almost 3/4 through a bachelors so each class you take in the next year is representing only about 1/40 of your GPA. It gives you the advantage that a bad grade can't do much damage to your GPA but the disadvantage that a good grade has little effect as well.
To increase your GPA (regardless of how many hours you have), you must always average a semester GPA higher than your cumulative. Being only slightly higher makes a small impact. A significant difference requires a significantly higher semester GPA.
If you had a 3.0 on 86 hours and were scheduled for 15 hours next semester, and you got a 4.0 on that semester; you'd now have a 3.148 at the end of that semester. If you repeated that again, you'd have a 3.258. So, if you had a 3.0 now you could raise your GPA just over 1/4 of a grade point in a typical year if you could hold a 4.0 on that year.
This is why it's imperative that freshmen collect as high a GPA as possible - it's very hard to increase it later.
2007-12-09 16:41:08 · answer #1 · answered by CoachT 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Take high credit classes and get As in them
2007-12-09 16:30:49 · answer #2 · answered by Colleen N 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋