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GPA Calculator: Work Out Your Grade Point Average

This free GPA calculator turns your course grades and credit hours into a grade point average on the common 4.0 scale. Enter one course per line and get your GPA, total credits and quality points.

By Debmedia Technologies LLP · Kolkata, India · Updated

What Is It and When Do You Need It?

GPA is the average of your grades, weighted by how many credits each course carries. A 4-credit course counts more than a 1-credit one. Students use GPA for scholarships, university applications and academic standing.

This calculator reads letter grades or grade-point numbers, one course per line, and returns the weighted GPA.

How to Use This Tool

  1. Type one course per line: the grade, a space, then the credit hours, for example A- 3.
  2. Choose how A+ is counted at your school.
  3. Press Calculate.
  4. Read the GPA, the total credits and the quality points per course.

How the Calculation Works

Each grade is changed into grade points using the standard table. Quality points for a course equal grade points × credits. GPA = total quality points ÷ total credits.

Table used: A+ 4.0 (or 4.3), A 4.0, A− 3.7, B+ 3.3, B 3.0, B− 2.7, C+ 2.3, C 2.0, C− 1.7, D+ 1.3, D 1.0, D− 0.7, F 0.

Worked Example

Courses: A 3, B+ 4, A- 3, C 2. Quality points are 12, 13.2, 11.1 and 4, which add up to 40.3. Credits total 12. GPA = 40.3 ÷ 12 = 3.36.

Common Uses

  • Planning the marks you need this term.
  • Scholarship and admission forms.
  • Combining several semesters into a cumulative GPA.
  • Checking a transcript.

Tips and Common Mistakes

  • Include every course that counts at your school, and leave out pass/fail courses.
  • For a cumulative GPA, add all courses from every semester in one list.
  • Some schools drop the lowest grade or repeat courses, so the official figure may differ.

Next, you may need the weighted average calculator, average calculator, percentage calculator, standard deviation calculator.

Everything runs in your browser. Nothing you type is uploaded, stored or sent to any outside service.

Frequently Asked Questions

Multiply each course grade point by its credit hours to get quality points. Add them all up and divide by the total credit hours.
A is 4.0, B is 3.0, C is 2.0, D is 1.0 and F is 0. Plus and minus grades add or subtract about 0.3, for example B+ is 3.3 and B− is 2.7.
Yes. Write 3.5 3 to mean a grade point of 3.5 for a 3-credit course.
No. Schools set their own scales and rules. Use this for planning and check the official figure with your school.

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