grade point
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- noun
- /ɡreɪd pɔɪnt/
- US
:
punto de calificación
- In A-track classes, a five-point scale is used to compute the grade point average.
- grade point average
- grade point average (GPA)
- cumulative grade point
Examples
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Students look for ways to raise their grade point averages to improve their range of college acceptances.
Academic text (1994) -
It's embarrassing when your mother has a higher grade point average than you do.
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I thought you had the highest grade point in our class.
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The difference in grade point average was not significant over the same period of time.
Academic text (2011) -
That looks like your grade point distribution for this class.
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You require your players to maintain a 2.3 grade point average.
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I'm ranked third in our class for grade point average.
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I attended school at Yardale and had a 4.0 grade point average.
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First-generation students report less social and academic satisfaction as well as a lower grade point average.
Academic text (2011) -
I thought you had the highest grade point in our class.
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly compositional: 'grade' (an academic mark) + 'point' (a scoring unit) yields a numeric value assigned to a grade. This noun-noun compound follows ordinary English compounding and is cross-linguistically transparent, so a B1 learner who knows both words can infer the MWE's meaning.
Etymology
Grade point comes from the idea of giving a small point value to a student's grade, like a score in a game. Those 'points' are added or averaged to show a student's performance, so the term means the number used to calculate a student's overall average.