R-Score

Despite the bad rap it occasionally gets for being difficult to understand, many students have always known our dear R-Score as a relatively simple formula: (Z-Score + IFG + 5) × 5, where IFG, or group strength index (indice de force de groupe), equals (High school average – 75) / 14 (if you haven’t read…

If you have read our article The Ultimate R-Score Breakdown: Everything Explained (and if you haven’t, you should before reading this article), you will know that the only true ‘variable’ relating to the R-Score with which CEGEP students should be concerned is the evaluation group. To recapitulate, the evaluation group is the group of students who are considered to…

In our first semester of CEGEP, we often wondered as students how grades might correlate to R-Score values, and indeed first-years can often be spotted obsessively using rscorecalculator.com. Knowing only their approximate grade and lacking information for the class average, standard deviation and high school average, they confidently make up dubious values for those three…

If you are currently in CEGEP, or even in the last years of high school in Quebec, you’ve probably heard some cliché discussion of the R-Score, often taking the following form: “The calculation of the R-Score is extremely complicated, and you need to fully understand it to use it to your advantage,” and continuing with…

One trend that any attentive CEGEP student will surely notice, and which is somewhat contrary to what one might expect, is that students’ R-Scores mostly stay within the same range from semester to semester. Yes, there are some exceptions, such as people who either start taking their studies seriously later on and see their marks…