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by TchoBeer 1796 days ago
My school had a pretty good system, where AP grades got a boost proportional to how far from 100 they were, something like 40%, so if you got an 80 raw it would be boosted by 20x.4 = 8 to 88 final score. This effectively means that weaker students aren't penalized for chosing harder classes whilst very strong students don't get rediculously inflated grades.
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Oh, at my school it was just a flat addition.

That's how the valedictorian and salutatorian a year or so after me ended up with final grades of something like 103.4 and 103.5.