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My damn-it-I-have-to-look-for-a-job adventures are a mad Giga Coaster ride. Sometimes, it is hard to believe that you are about to enter a different phase of life and you, unconsciously, enters this phase as if it is mandatory–but you actually say to yourself that it is indeed something not required for life (or, at least, not yet): “Nah, I’ll gonna rest first after several years of academic stress” . Then, after bragging and believing that work can wait for you, your eye flesh suddenly sticks on the different job openings on JobStreet. So, you really don’t want to work yet, huh?
If you are about to have your internship or post-graduation job hunt, one of the things you do is create an account in some popular job search engines such as Jobstreet and JobsDB. These two services ask for your Grade Point Average or your GPA in percentage. You would be then disappointed that our Grade Weighted Average (UP, UST, etc) is of a different form (1.00 highest possible and 3.00 lowest possible passing grade). You would realize too that you are so lazy to do some math magic to convert your GWA to GPA Percentage. Fret not, here is a conversion table that would prevent you from wasting pencil lead and scratch paper in finding and computing for a solution.
This table has three assumptions:
Only a flat 1.00 GWA could yield a 100% GPA.
1.75 GWA (The lowest possible cum laude standing grade) yields an 85% GPA.
3.00 GWA (The lowest possible grade to graduate) yields 60% GPA.
Possible FAQs:
Why do you use whole numbers for GPA% in your conversion table?
Base on experience, most job search engines and corporate application forms ask for whole number GPAs
Why do you assume that 60% yields 3.00? Some subjects have lower standards i.e. 3.00 yields 50%.
True, there are some subjects that the passing grade is 50%=3.00. But the reference point of this conversion table is this: 1.75 GWA yields 85%. The rationale behind this is most companies regard 85% as the lowest possible GWA with honors i.e. 85%=1.75.
Why are you doing this?
During my pre-internship period, several of my classmates ask me to convert their currrent GWA to GPA percentage. Now that we are graduating next year, the same friends could ask me again about it so I am making a convenient tool for everyone in general. :)
DISCLAIMER:
You cannot blame this table (and me at that) if your prospective employer says that your GPA isn’t reflective of your GWA because you used this. However, I assure everyone that this is based on basic mathematical logic.
If you are about to have your internship or post-graduation job hunt, one of the things you do is creating an account in some popular job search engines such as Jobstreet and JobsDB. These two services ask for your Grade Point Average or your GPA in percentage. You would be then disappointed that our Grade Weighted Average (UP, UST, etc) is of a different form (1.00 highest possible and 3.00 lowest possible passing grade). You would realize too that you are so lazy to do some math magic to convert your GWA to GPA Percentage. Fret not, here is a conversion table that would prevent you from wasting pencil lead and scratch paper in finding and computing for a solution.
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