Right to know International GPA conversions RANT
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15 Jul 2015, 13:19
I'm pretty sure I'm the millionth Indian guy you've encountered who's asking you "My Indian GPA is a 10 point scale, US GPA is a 4 point scale and the my Indian GPA is kinda low".
I come from a mid-tier college (SVCE, Chennai) from India affiliated to Anna University. The thing about my university, and all affiliated colleges in general is that, there is a LACK of teachers who are willing to evaluate your answer scripts. These tests aren't computerised and I don't know know university semester exams are conducted and evaluated in the US. With that being said, your grades are HUGELY dependent on your handwriting and ability to fill the paper to the last. If you come to my state? It is common knowledge that your university exams are graded by professors who don't know the subject at all. Due to the lack of evaluators, they are distributed to whoever possible, someone form the Electronics department corrects your Computer Science paper with the help of A KEY. Evaluators are not paid enough and so simply spend less than 2 minutes in evaluating a 40 page hand written answer script. There is a procedure called "Revaluation" where in, you can challenge the university and ask for higher grades. Although, the revaluation does justice and gives you a HIGHER grade, they certainly don't give you the "DESERVED" or the "RIGHT" grade. If I have written a 16 mark answers, You can't expect to be awarded a full 16 even if your answer is impeccable. A perfect answer hand written gets you 14/16, and this is, if you've answered Part - A correctly and you're handwriting is so beautiful that it could be mistaken for a computer font. THE HIGHEST a university rank holder gets is a 8.9 CGPA converts to 3.57/4. Now this is the UNIVERSITY RANK HOLDER. Best among at least 1 lakh students of the university. How on earth is this even a fair conversion if you put into consideration how dogmatic, stupid and rigid the evaluation is done? Anna University ranks 9 in India. I don't study in the main campus, I study in a college affiliated to the university that follows the regulations and syllabus of the university.
THERE ARE SOME SITES AND SOME COUNSELLORS THAT SAY INDIAN GPA IS VALUED HIGHER
I already know the common replies "Adcoms are already aware of the weightage that needs to be given to your GPA, just supply the right information without converting your GPA"
Now here's what I want to know.. Is there an exact, certified official GPA converter that b-schools follow to convert GPA? cause, I have a 7.5/10 GPA with history of one backlog, and converting that to 3/4 is really just not fair. Shouldn't b-schools follow a normalised converter for countries and at least have a converter for popular Indian universities GPA to US GPA conversions? They probably DO have one. Assuming they do, don't we the students have the right to have access to the algorithm? No one's gonna criticise the algorithm now! But it lets us know the exact conversions and give us a proper goal of GPA to attain.. I was wondering if you have access to these normalised converters? or you know for sure how its done? I wish you guys could start some petition to disclose the conversion methods or something :p