number one high school in the country for having the highest percentage of graduating seniors enroll in Ivy League and several other highly selective colleges, For college admission purposes, in addition to grades, colleges also typically review other material submitted by applicants and others, such as student essays, letters of recommendation, assessments of sports program potential, transcripts identifying which courses a student has taken, and scores from standardized test programs such as the SAT, ACT, Advanced Placement tests in particular subjects, and state-established testing scores. GPA in the United States job market According to a study published in 2014, a one-point increase in high-school GPA is correlated with an 11.85% increase in annual earnings for men and 13.77% for women in the United States. College students often wonder how much weight GPA carries in their employment prospects. In many fields, work experience (such as internships) gained during one's time in college are the most important factors that employers consider. Other factors include choice of major, volunteering, choice of extracurricular activities, relevance of coursework, GPA, and the reputation of one's college. The relative importance of these factors do vary between professions, but for a graduate's first job out of college, GPA is often quite high on the list of factors that employers consider. There is also criticism about using grades as an indicator in employment. Armstrong (2012) claimed that the relationship between grades and job performance is low and becoming lower in recent studies. Grade inflation at American colleges over recent decades has also played a role in the devaluation of grades. India Different educational boards use different metrics in awarding grades to students, along with the marks obtained in most cases. Central Board of Secondary Education follows a positional grading system where grades are given on basis of the position of the student, if the student is in the top 1/8 of the rank of the no. of passing candidates, grade is A1, next 1/8 A2, next 1/8 B1, and so on. This grading system is based on the relative position of the student rather than the actual marks, it compares marks of different students and then a grade is given. See also Grading on a curve Sudbury school, a school model for ages 4 through 18 with schools internationally with no grading or grade levels Competency-based learning, an alternative to the traditional letter grade system Mastery Transcript Consortium, a