How to gpa calculated in south africa
How to calculate Admission Points Score (APS) & Grades Point Average (GPA) | South African YouTuber
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today's video is dedicated to explaining
the admission point score
also known as aps as well as the
grade point average also known as gpa
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what is the admission point score
or rather the aps aps is used by a lot
of
institutions of higher learning and they
use this
as a way to measure whether or not
you are firstly able to get into the
institution itself but secondly able to
study the program that you want so you
can look at it as a way of measuring
whether or not you meet the minimum
requirements
of somebody who would get into a
specific program
so this is normally used during the
application process
and you would need to indicate
what your aps score is when you are
applying
for certain um when you are applying for
certain
programs the other thing is it helps you
know as well if you do qualify for
certain programs because imagine if you
just
didn't know what was required for each
program and you just kept applying for
stuff
and you end up not qualifying for things
so it's also a way for you to see if you
do
meet the minimum requirements for a
certain program
please note and i think a whole lot of
institutions if not all
put this down on the prospectuses
on the prospect i can see
on their websites and
their booklets whatever just because you
meet the minimum required
aps is for certain program it doesn't
mean that you are automatically
in the program so this is just the
measurement of whether or not you need
it
if the program wants 30 students and 100
people need to
meet the admission point score that is
required
obviously they would need to still pick
the 30 that they can fit in
so just be careful to not think that
when you do meet the ap s
that you are now in the program you
still do need to apply you still
do need to fill in all the other things
and
give it your best shot so keep that in
mind so what do they use to calculate
your aps
so depending on when you are applying
your latest results will be used so a
lot of
institutions of higher learning you need
to apply during your metric year
so what that means is you'll probably be
using your grade 11
fourth term report which is your final
report so you would then use the
subjects
on your grade 11 report to calculate
your admission point
score now if you are
applying beyond grade 12 and you already
have your grade 12 results
you would then use your grade 12 results
in order to apply
for varsity technical and
college wherever you want to go so how
is it calculated
so the first thing i want to point out
as i've said is that each institution
not each institution but it does differ
across different institutions
how the aps is calculated but secondly
the aps required for different programs
is different so what i mean by that is
even within the same
institution the aps you need for law
wouldn't be the same as the aps you need
for engineering won't be the same aps
you need for humanities won't be the
same aps you need for
health science so you do need to
firstly check exactly how the
institution you're trying to apply
to calculates the aps points
or aps secondly you would need to also
check what the program you want
requires in terms of aps
so i've included in this video some
examples of how different institutions
and different programs do calculate
their aps
points so let's get into it
so the first example i've given here is
the tut admission point score
system so they actually have a tool
which is a step-by-step process of
what you need to do in order to
calculate and view your
aps so they actually help you calculated
so the first thing you would do which is
step one is to select your metric type
you do know that
in 20 in 2008 the
school curriculum changed so how your
aps is calculated
will differ across the two systems
as well as across the international
system as well because we all know that
our schooling systems are not the same
and so even how your aps score is
calculated would
be different
step two is to select your metric mark
your metric subject and marks so
they've got their home language first
additional language mathematics life
orientation and
next subject and you can add more
subjects and then what you basically do
is that you
pick a mark and i have already opened
english home
or chosen english home language so you
can see
how that looks and then in terms of the
mark obtained you would just let them
know
what mark you got so between 80
100 between 70 and 80 between 60 and 70
etc
and you will realize that that mark
corresponds to a certain aps so this aps
basically
corresponds to the levels you would see
on your school report
where 80 to 100 is in level 7 70 to 80
is a level six
etc etc etc so that's how
they calculate the aps and then
step three would be for you to select a
course or field of study
so after you've picked all your subjects
you would then select a course or field
of study that you want
to study for step four is to view the
report
now what this means is they let you know
what
the minimum required symbols
are for your desired program
for the different subject and then they
compare that
with your mods which you've just
inputted in the previous
slide and then they tell you what your
total aps
is and what the cost minimum required
aps
is and then they will let you know if
you have met the
minimum aps required for the course or
not
obviously if you don't meet the
requirements you must not waste your
application
on a course that you already don't meet
the memory requirements because chances
of them rejecting you are quite high
there might be some exceptions i don't
know in which case
but this would be the point where you go
back to the drawing board and
re-evaluate which course you want to
study
and see what other things do interest
you
if you do meet the aps the minimum
required aps then you would proceed to
then apply for this particular
um course or degree so this is a very
nice tool for you to use
prior to actually sending your
application
because i've already mentioned earlier
that it would be a real bummer
if you just applied blind you to
whatever course you saw and only to be
rejected because you didn't meet the apo
school
so tools like this allow you to actually
know where you stand as far as the
course you want to study is concerned
the second example i've included
is the northwest university aps score
system calculator
and it pretty much is the same as
the previous one you saw tuts one way by
it's a tool that they've created where
you pick your subject
and your mark and then they'll let you
know exactly how
much you got the third example i've
included
is um uj so this is specifically for law
and they tell you that the aps how they
define aps is that it's a score used to
determine whether a prospective student
can be admitted to study a degree in the
faculty of law
it is easy to calculate the aps it is
basically the sum of the achievement
ratings for the six best prescribed
school subjects
each achievement rating is calculated on
a sliding scale
that is the level one to seven scale
take note that the performance rating
for subject life orientation is
not taken into account in this
calculation
see the next page for the full admission
requirements
and the aps scale
so the table there shows you um what the
requirements are for this degree it's a
bachelor's degree it's three years ba
low become low
and then at the bottom there they have
llb and then the aps scale as you can
see
is 80 to 100 percent and it has the
different levels as well as i've
explained previously
so this is pretty much the standard
way of calculating aps across most
institutions by this i mean allocating
the levels as you would see them on your
school report two
percentages and then using the levels as
your aps points then what you do is you
add those levels and you
get your total aps score
looking into another institution i've
looked adverts
as well and the reason why i picked this
out is because they actually have a
different way of calculating the aps
score and i hope that this will
highlight the fact that you still
do need to you still need
to look at the specific institution that
you want to apply to because they might
also be calculating it in a different
way
so looking at verts what they do
is um you will see that the first
in the on this table you'll firstly on
top of the table the last
bullet point on top of the table says
that the aps calculation
is based on the best seven subjects so
that's
the first difference other other
institutions have said they take the top
six
here they say they take the best seven
subjects
including life orientation so that's the
second difference where
other institutions exclude life
orientation in the apa's calculation
this actually includes life orientation
and looking into the table which is
looking into more detail of exactly how
they calculated
you'll see that the first column refers
to the nsc scale of achievement
those are the levels that you would see
on your report normally
which coincide with the percentage you
received
as you can see in the second column then
in the third column they show you the
vids
aps and the fourth shows that the aps
percentage
and what you see here is that starting
from the bottom
instead of zero to twenty nine percent
being level one and thirty to thirty
nine percent being level two
like the nsc vince actually has
both those ranges as zeros in terms of
aps
scores then 40 to 49 percent
is 3 52 59 as a four
60 to 69 is a five 70 to seventy nine is
a six
and eighty two so up till 79
so from level so from 40
percent to 79 it's the same as the
nsc calculation however
you'll see that they then say their
level 7 is actually 80 to 89
whereas the nfc level 7 is 80 to 99
and inverts has an aps of 8
which coincides with 90 to 100.
so obviously this would be different
how you thought like what your ap score
is on the nsc system will definitely be
different
from what the aps score is adverts
especially if you've got either
the lower ranges or some of the higher
ranges
because the middle range is pretty
similar
so they also have a different way of
calculating
math and english as well as life
orientation and the other subjects
so for other subjects and subjects
coincide with
the scale that we just spoke about now
the fifth aps
scale then live orientation you'll see
if you get 0 to
59 for live orientation
it's zero on the aps under this aps
scale
so you don't get any point for life
orientation if you didn't get up at 59
percent
then if you start getting 60 to 69 you
get
a 1 72 79 and 2
and so forth 9200 being a level four
or yeah for a point of four
math in english as well if you get
zero percent to 39 it's zero
40 to 49 is a three 52 59 is a four
60 to 69 is the seven
so what they've done here as you can see
is that they add
two points to the normal
level or the normal point that it would
be
and they do this for five six seven and
eight
so you find that if you got 90 between
90 to 100 formats
and english you would get 10 points
so this is something to take note of
because it can seem quite complex
but it's actually quite simple if you do
follow the
explanation that they give on their
perspective okay so that's how the aps
system works across different
institutions once again
make sure you familiarize yourself with
the aps system of the specific
institution you want to apply to
okay so which institutions actually use
aps
points universities use aps points
as well as universities of technology
slash technicons they do use aps points
when you are applying to them
i have not come across a college that
does use aps points
there might be some and if they are and
if you know of some please comment down
below
which colleges do use the aps
which colleges do use the aps system
i'm not saying that for you to get into
a college doesn't need to
exist no you do still need to meet their
requirements just that they might not
measure their requirements
using the aps system so moving on to
grade
point average or gpa so what
is a grade point average so it's the
average value
which is calculated using the final
marks that you have gotten for your
courses or modules
that you have completed towards
your qualification so
think of your average that you get in
high school
where they average out the subjects that
you have
completed and they average them out
based on the marks you've gotten for
each subject
a grade point average score is similar
however the difference between a gpa and
just a normal
average of your points is that it takes
into account
the time it takes for the course as we
do know
different courses in university require
you to spend different time
on them so some courses even though it
it's a semester course
you might find that you are required to
spend 480 hours on the course
or other subjects are actually just 120
hours that you need to spend on the
course
and you would see this by how often you
have class for that course often you
have tutorials for that course
and the work that's expected from you
beyond
class as well so at home what how much
how many hours are expected of
self-study work
of the course so normally this is
highlighted in
um the course outline or yes this is
normally highlighted in the course
outline
and you would be told exactly how much
time
you are expected to spend on the course
or at least good lecturers do
inform you of this so
now you would imagine that getting 80
percent for a course
for which you have to spend 480 hours to
complete
is not the same as getting 80 for a
course which you need to spend 120 hours
to complete
so that's where a gpa that's where the
component of adding the hours comes into
the gpa
calculation it's to factor in the fact
that
it might take a longer time
to achieve 20 more on a course that
requires more time
and i think that makes sense to be quiet
so how is it calculated
so different institutions might
calculate their gpas
differently similar to aps scores but
what you need to know is the higher your
gpa
the better so shift stars
it is normally a single value though
like a single figure like
one two three four some institutions do
get to like five six
so you just need to familiarize yourself
with what
how the gpa is calculated and what is
the maximum gpa you can get
in some systems the maximum you can get
is full based on how they calculate
their courses and based on how much time
um how many courses you can do per
semester and based on how much time each
course
does take however in other institutions
it may go beyond four
but you will see just now when i go
through how it's calculated
what i mean by that what are gpas used
for
so firstly they can be used similar to
how ap the aps system is used
to apply for institutions so certain
institutions might ask for a gpa instead
of like an aps point
and you would pretty much do the same
which is just calculate the average you
are getting for
your subjects if you are applying for a
postgraduate qualification
you would use your gpa that you had
in your previous qualification that
you've already achieved in
undergraduate secondly
gpas can also be used to apply for jobs
you know there are those jobs that still
ask you how
what your marks were etc some jobs might
ask you just for a gpa instead of asking
you
for different courses and individual
ones you've got for each course
you might also be asked for your gpa
when applying for like scholarships
learnerships
anything that you might apply for they
might ask for a gpa
it's literally just a measurement of how
well you've performed in school
that's literally what a gpa is so
looking into how
different institutions might calculate
their gpa
let's have a look so i have here the
cape peninsula university of technology
gpa calculator
so similar to how other institutions
that i've shown you have
a aps calculator some institutions
also have a gpa calculator on their
system just to make it easier for people
to calculate
their gps so their gpas so
as you can see in the picture shown you
would need to
choose your course name there where it
says subject
and i guess the way it says course you'd
be specific
what course it is you'd enter the credit
hours and the grade that you got
for that specific course and then they
would tell you
how much you got in terms of your apa
there at the top right corner so
this slide explains is it's also still
from
the cape peninsula university of
technology cput
and here is where they explain the
calculation behind
their tool so obviously the tool you
would just enter
your stuff so it's like a plug and play
type thing where you just enter your
marks you enter your courses and then
you just get a gpa
but here they're actually explaining how
they calculated and as you can see
for step one they have different grade
scales
so if you got an a that's a four if you
got a b that's a three etc
then step two you need to edit your
credit
hours so as you can see in this
particular example
chemistry has three credit hours
economics has two methods three in
english
as one and the total credit hours for
this particular person is
nine then you get you enter
your grades so this is how much you got
for that specific course so this person
got a b for chemistry and a for
economics a d format and a c for english
and as step one has indicated each
each grade or each yeah each grade is
allocated to a number
so b is allocated to three a is
allocated to four
d is allocated to one and c is allocated
to two
and what they do to get their weighted
gpa
is to multiply the credit hour by the
grade
so for chemistry that would be three
times three
hence it's a nine for economics it would
be two times four
that's eight and so forth and then you
get your total weighted gpa
then in step three you take that
weighted gpa as you can see this person
got 22.
you take that 22 and you divide it by
the
credit hours which was 9 for this person
and then they got 2.44
a gpa of 2.44
so that's basically how they calculate
your gpa
um at cput and
i think it's pretty simple um you just
multiply your credit hours
by the grade you got to get your
weighted gpa and then you take your
weighted gpa and you divide it by your
credit hours
okay there you have it an explanation of
what
aps is and what gpa
is i hope this information was helpful
and i hope that you are successful in
whatever it is that you're going to
apply for
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