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Why is my computed grade different from my ECR?

Six things to check, and how to check each one in about a minute with Explain this grade.

One answer, with what teachers ask next on the same screen underneath it.

  • Say whether it helped at the bottom of the article. That is the only way we learn it is wrong.
  • Anything in a green box is what the DepEd order says; anything in amber is where teachers get caught.

Start with the panel

Tap the learner's number in the TERM GRADE column to open Explain this grade. It shows every activity, every component percentage and weighted score, the initial grade, the table and the term grade. Compare it with your ECR line by line before changing anything.

The usual reasons

  1. A blank against a zero. An empty cell here is not recorded and leaves both sums. Your ECR may be treating the same blank as 0. Type 0 if the learner really scored nothing, or X to excuse them.
  2. Rounding along the way. The engine carries the initial grade to four decimals and rounds once, at the end. A sheet that rounds each component percentage to two decimals can land a point away.
  3. The Examinations composite. Summative Test 1 at 30%, Summative Test 2 at 30% and the Term Examination at 40% are combined before the Examinations weight is applied. Hand computations often skip this step.
  4. A different transmutation table. Press G on the class record for Grading tables: it names the table in use, cites its DepEd order, and lists every band so you can read the grade off yourself.
  5. An activity left out. On the Activities page an activity can be set to Leave out of the grade. Its scores stay, but it is out of the computation, and it shows struck through in the grid with a Left out tag.
  6. An adjustment. The ADJ. column moves the term grade after the table is read; the initial grade and the table reading stay exactly as computed. It is not part of DO 015 — it is recorded, shown in the explanation and audit-logged. Blank means none.

Still different

Message us on the Facebook page during business hours with your support reference and the class code. Do not move a score to make the two agree: the order is the authority, and the panel shows the working either way.

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