What does grade weigh mean?

Answer 1

This depends. Do you mean what are weighted grades? In that case it's when a grade in a harder class such as honors or AP is worth more points than a normal class. For instance, when I was in high school I got an A in PE and that was worth 4 points, an A in health which was worth 4 points, an A in English worth 4 points but my A in AP Physics and A in honors geometry were both worth 5 points.

Weighted grades matter when your calculating your GPA.

regular GPA scale:

a =4

b =3

c =2

d =1

f=0

weighted GPA scale

a =5

b=4

c=3

d=2

assuming that all the classes i took above were worth one unit each we calculate the GPA by

(total points of all classes)/(number of classes taken)

(4+4+4+5+5)/5 =22/5 =4.4

thus my weighted GPA would have been 4.4 if i just used the classes above.

note: if the classes are worth more than one unit (aka anything above high school) you calculate it using the formula:

sum(number of units for class Ai*grade score for that class)/number of units taken.