When did Grade Point Ratio (GPR) become Grade Point Average (GPA)? nt

[raccoon]

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. I think some time before 1965.

That's when I graduated from high school, and the term was grade point average then. I don't think I've ever even heard of a "grade point ratio."

[raccoon]

2. Your neck of the woods must have been ahead of mine. I graduated after you, and in college we used

the term "Grade point ratio."

[bluedigger]

3. I've never even heard of GPR.

Is it regional - tied to ACT v. SAT's?

[raccoon]

4. Maybe it is--was--regional since I don't think "GPR" is used anymore. It was used

at least in the early '70's, in my area.

[OriginalGeek]

5. Today is the first time I have ever heard GPR

And I don't recall using GPA even in High School although I must have - I graduated HS in 1981 and I knew what the term meant in college.

But GPR is new to me.

[Orrex]

6. I think it was around the time that they stopped calling movies "talkies."

Until I read your post, I don't think I'd ever encountered the term "grade point ratio."

[Bruce Wayne]

7. Just googled "GPR" - results were about Ground-penetrating radar

This led me to start googling the name of that actor who played Radar O'Reilly on MASH. That led me to googling what the hell Mike Farrell's up to these days. That led me to googling information on the Misquito Indians of Nicaragua. That led me to googling the history of US intervention in Central America during the 20th Century.

Why do you make me waste my time like this?

[raccoon]

8. mayb e people were talking about Ground Penetrating Radar, and I just thought they were talking

about grades. LOL.

I think yall must be Northerners or whippersnappers--or both.

[Bucky]

10. Is Bruce Wayne from the North? I thought he was from Gotham City.

Anyway, I am from the South (born in New Orleans, raised in Houston, studied Faulkner in college, and lost my virginity while Ray Wylie Hubbard was on the radio) and I never heard the phrase Grade Point Ratio until this thread came along and rocked my Weltanschauung.

[MiddleFingerMom]

9. It's Southern Drawl for "Great Point, Horatio".

No period of my life has been one of such unmixed happiness as the four years which have been spent within college walls.
Horatio Alger

[dimbear]

11. In today's schools, GPR means gunpowder residue. n/t