Calculation of Credits/grades

Ratatouille89 wrote:

Can you explain to me a bit how averages work and how one arrives at receiving the grade "x" at the end of the three-year or two-year period?

As with all weighted averages, it should be credits * grade and the total is divided by the number of credits.

Ratatouille89 wrote:

Then they told me about a certain weighted average, according to which the highest grade and the lowest grade are removed from the pool; for example, an 18 and a 30 cum laude.

Can you confirm?

I know that not everyone does it, some universities do. You must inquire at the secretariat of your AFAM institution

The DPR 212 leaves the methods for calculating the average and the evaluation of the final exam to individual institutions.

For example, in my school district, the weighted average is calculated without excluding grades (so we don't remove max and min) out of 110/mi, then up to 8 points can be added at the final exam. This applies to the Ordinary Three-Year Period (from 2010 onwards). In the experimental Three-Year Period (pre-2010) and in the experimental Two-Year Period, however, the weighted average is out of 100/mi and the final exam can add up to 20 points (a nonsense rule made years ago).

Zedef wrote:

DPR 212 leaves the methods for calculating the average and the evaluation of the final exam to individual institutions.

However, I don't think the compensation described is right; honors are worth 3 points... what would be the meaning of removing the two extremes?

Praise counts for nothing in terms of the average, at least from my side.

Oh my God, honors (lode) are not worth 3 points anywhere; in universities sometimes, but rarely, for a certain number of honors, one point is increased, so the honor is worth a fraction, even if only in the presence of a considerable number of honors. Much more often, however, a considerable number of honors simply leads to having the honor added to the 110. This is at least the case in Italian universities.

In some Italian faculties, 3 is valid

thallo wrote:

Oh my god, honors (lode) aren't worth 3 points anywhere; in universities sometimes, but rarely, for a certain total of honors, one point is increased, so honors are worth a fraction, even if only in the presence of a considerable number of honors. Much more often, however, a considerable number of honors simply leads to having the honor added to the 110. This is at least the case in Italian universities.

Parnaldo, regarding the weighted average, I don't find defining a numerical value for honors to be so wrong. 30 is different from 30 and honors, so why should it only be worth a fraction of a grade? And then... how much?

In my opinion, the fact that there are regulations works to the student's advantage; as for me, this business of averages based on common sense, what value can it have?

If I get an honor, it's because I did more than just a tiny bit more compared to someone who got "only" 30.