Bulletin One 2012 2013 Final.pdf - Fort Worth ISD

70 - 80 2 Points 3 Points
0 - 69 0 Points 0 Points
II. Students earn grade points and credits on semester basis. To obtain the GPA, the total points a
student earns are added and that sum is divided by the total number of semester courses attempted.
A. Do not include credits or count courses for:
• High School courses completed in middle school, e.g., Algebra I A/B
• Local credit courses, e.g., Conditioning IA/B
• Credit by exam (CBE), e.g., U. S. Government IA
• Correspondence courses, e.g., Sociology IA
B. Do include the following:
• Courses approved for state graduation credit.
• Dual credit college courses, if the course is on the transcript with the FWISD course name,
e.g., Psychology IA.
• Courses transferred from accredited public or private schools and awarded credit
according to the guidelines in Bulletin 100.
C. No Credit is awarded in the following cases:
• Courses for which a failing grade is received.
• Courses denied credit due to excessive absences.
Example: In Grade 8, John made an ―A‖ in Algebra 1AB. In Grade 9 he took six (6) classes
each semester for a total of twelve (12) courses, none of which were honors. He made a 95 in
Driver Education IA. Of the eleven (11) courses that he took for state graduation credit, his
grades were 81, 83, 83, 82, 90, 86, 86, 87, 87, and 64. Compute his GPA in the following
manner:
Courses Grade Points
2 course in Grade 8, both passed 0 0
1 local credit course, passed 0 0
10 state graduation credit courses, all
passed
10 30
1 state graduation credit course, failed 1 0
Total 11 30
12-13 SY Bulletin Number One 40 Revised: 10/9/2012