R-Score

The R-Score is a calculation of grades that is used by Quebec universities to gauge academic performance in college relative to other Quebec students. For each of your courses, you receive a score that takes into account three components: your grade, the group average (and standard deviation), and group strength (which is determined by the high school grades of the students in the course group). Your overall R-Score is a weighted average of the R-Scores you obtain for each of your courses. BCI (bureau de cooperation interuniversitaire), a private, non-profit organization representing all Quebec universities, calculates the R-Score.

Marianopolis students achieve higher overall R-Scores on average relative to students from other Montreal colleges.

Actually, attending Marianopolis is likely to help your R-Score. That’s because Marianopolis students benefit from a higher group strength due to the stronger academic strength of the students admitted to the College. As with any group, your R-Score also reflects your relative standing in that group (i.e., your grade relative to the grades of the other students in the course).

No. Your R-Score will reflect your relative standing in that group, so you would not suffer from being average in your course. You would still also benefit from the group strength component in a strong group (based on the group’s high school grades relative to other students in Quebec).

While your R-Score would reflect your relative standing in that group (i.e., below average), you would still benefit from the group strength component in a strong group (based on their high school grades relative to other students in Quebec).

It doesn’t. Honours students write the same final exams as the non-Honours classes of their courses so as to produce fair R-Scores for all students.

Yes. Generally, an R-Score is calculated for every course you take as part of your program. When a course has many groups, the R-Score calculation may include students from several classes.

No, because you do not have access to the required group strength data.

No. A few programs have additional criteria, such as an admission essay, CV, interview, audition, portfolio, letters of recommendation or entrance exams. Universities publish all admission criteria on their websites. Also, remember that only Quebec universities consider the R-Score.

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