Not everyone uses GPA

[ThomWright]

For example:
British undergraduate degree classification
and
Academic grading in the United Kingdom

Could we perhaps have something more along the lines of:

"gradeType": "GPA",
"grade": "4.0"

This allows templates to indicate which type of grading system is being used. E.g.

I'm open to alternative suggestions :)

[mudassir0909]

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[thisislawatts]

Agreed!

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[JaredCubilla]

+1

[ocram]

This allows templates to indicate which type of grading system is being used.

... while enabling machines to read, analyze and compare those values. So yes, this is definitely something we should discuss, at least.

Of course, the current plain string is easier to fill out, as you can just put in anything you want, e.g. GPA: 4.0 or Degree classification: 1st class.

[ThomWright]

Very true, I was considering doing that for the meantime. The drawback is that this makes it more difficult for templates to do nice formatting, e.g. GPA: in bold as in the original example.

[timstott]

Wouldn't renaming the field to grade make it agnostic across systems?

[ThomWright]

Yes, but see my above comment :)

[lfilho]

+1
I'm in Brazil and GPA is not the case here.

[rueckstiess]

Same issue in Germany.

+1 for renaming "gpa" to "grade", and leaving it a string field. I'd like to be able to do:

grade: "1.3 (scale from 1.0, 5.0, lower is better)"

[DonDebonair]

+1 for having grade instead of GPA

[mistakenot]

+1 UK degree here, having grade or something more generic would make more sense from an international POV.

[stp-ip]

"score": "1.3"
"score_best": "1.0"
"score_worst": "5.0"
could be more machine readable and user friendly.

[olivif]

For the UK I'm not sure you would have a number necessarily. I think it's a lot more common to have the classification of your degree

"classification": "First class"
"classification": "Upper Second-Class"
"classification": "2.2"

[aloisdg]

I am not sure about this. My school is using GPA, but it is not a norm. Also, who cares about GPA after leaving school? Nobody care in France as far as I know. I am for talking about this in a next version (not v1).

[stp-ip]

If we revisit this after v1, we should remove the current GPA usage. It seems wrong to acknowledge, that it is not enough, but leave it in.

I still think the most generic and machine readable solution would be:
"score": "1.3"
"score_best": "1.0"
"score_worst": "5.0"

[aloisdg]

@stp-ip I really think a score without a median is not worth it. I am still against for now.

[stp-ip]

OK so we agree to revisit a solution.

Remove the GPA or not? I would say remove it for now from the schema, but allow additional fields to make the pre-v1 GPA field compatible?

[aloisdg]

@stp-ip I agree to remove it, but most people here seem for using it.

[JohnJohnstone]

What is the staus on this issue?

[Frontrider]

As of now, I can't use it after an update. It seems to be failing because we do not have GPA. That is a bad standard to have.

[DonDebonair]

Discussed in #288, first proposal in #328, fixed in #391