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  2. Course credit - Wikipedia

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    In a college or university in the United States, students generally receive credit hours based on the number of "contact hours" per week in class, for one term, better known as semester credit hours (SCH). A contact hour includes any lecture or lab time when the professor is teaching the student or coaching the student while they apply the ...

  3. Carnegie Unit and Student Hour - Wikipedia

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    Again, the motive here was to standardize educational outputs and faculty workloads. Cooke established the collegiate Student Hour as "an hour of lecture, of lab work, or of recitation room work, for a single pupil" [3] per week (1/5 of the Carnegie Unit's 5-hour week), during a single semester (or 15 weeks, 1/2 of the Carnegie Unit's 30-week ...

  4. Carnegie rule - Wikipedia

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    The Carnegie rule is a rule of thumb suggesting how much outside-of-classroom study time is required to succeed in an average higher education course in the U.S. system. . Typically, the Carnegie Rule is reported as two or more hours of outside work required for each hour spent in the clas

  5. Academic grading in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Sometimes the 5-based weighing scale is used for AP courses and the 4.6-based scale for honors courses, but often a school will choose one system and apply it universally to all advanced courses. A small number of high schools use a 5-point scale for Honors courses, a 6-point scale for AP courses, and/or a 3-point scale for courses of below ...

  6. Academic grading in China - Wikipedia

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    Some US universities also provide guidance for converting different grading systems into 4.0 scale grading. For example, UC Berkeley has a GPA Conversion chart for non-US grading systems. [4] The lower grade ranges in 0-100 scale are given higher grades than usual in 4.0 scale for Chinese grading systems.

  7. Grading in education - Wikipedia

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    GPA is calculated by using the number of grade points a student earns in a given period of time. A GPA is often calculated for high school , undergraduate , and graduate students. A cumulative grade point average ( CGPA ), is the average of all the GPAs a student has achieved during their time at the institution. [ 3 ]

  8. Charles C. Krulak - Pay Pals - The Huffington Post

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    From January 2008 to May 2008, if you bought shares in companies when Charles C. Krulak joined the board, and sold them when he left, you would have a -0.2 percent return on your investment, compared to a -4.0 percent return from the S&P 500.

  9. List of law school GPA curves - Wikipedia

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    GPA not reported. Upper year courses have an easier curve. [118] GPA calculated based on 4.33 scale. New York University School of Law – not reported, but likely around 3.3 after 1L. Only 31% of 1L class grades are A−'s or higher. [119] University of Michigan Law School – class rank is not established until after graduation [120]