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Add your courses with a letter grade or percentage and credit hours, and get a credit-hour-weighted GPA on the standard 4.0 scale — or combine it with a cumulative GPA you already have.
A common-scale estimate — confirm against your school's official transcript.
Your GPA is the credit-hour-weighted average of your course grades — a single A carries more weight in a 4-credit course than a 1-credit one. This calculator adds up quality points across every course you enter and divides by total credit hours, with the option to fold in a cumulative GPA you already have.
Courses (4/12)
GPA
3.36
12 credit hours this term
At a glance
If you left "combine with a current GPA" unchecked, the single GPA shown is just this term's courses. Check that box and enter your existing GPA and completed credit hours to also see a "new cumulative GPA" — the number that matters for most transcript, honors, and eligibility purposes, since it's the running average across everything you've completed, not just the new term.
Term GPA
Σ(grade points × credit hours) ÷ Σ(credit hours)Grade points come from the letter (A=4.0, A-=3.7, …) or, in percentage mode, from converting your score to a letter first.
Cumulative GPA
(old GPA × old credits + new quality points) ÷ (old credits + new credits)Treats your existing GPA as one large already-weighted course.
Four courses: an A (4.0) at 3 credits, a B+ (3.3) at 4 credits, an A- (3.7) at 3 credits, and a C (2.0) at 2 credits — 12 credit hours total. Quality points: (4.0×3) + (3.3×4) + (3.7×3) + (2.0×2) = 12 + 13.2 + 11.1 + 4 = 40.3. Term GPA is 40.3 ÷ 12 = 3.36. Combined with an existing cumulative GPA of 3.5 across 60 prior credit hours: (3.5×60 + 40.3) ÷ (60+12) = 250.3 ÷ 72 = a new cumulative GPA of 3.48.
Convert each course's letter grade to grade points on a 4.0 scale (A = 4.0, B = 3.0, and so on), multiply by that course's credit hours to get quality points, add the quality points across all courses, then divide by the total credit hours. This calculator does that automatically and shows the breakdown.
It depends heavily on context — your school, program, and goals. As a rough general reference, 3.5+ is often considered strong, 3.0+ is commonly cited as solid for many graduate program minimums, and below 2.0 frequently triggers academic-standing review at US institutions. Check your specific school's or program's stated requirements rather than relying on a generic cutoff.
This calculator first converts your percentage to a letter grade using common bands (93-100% = A, 90-92% = A-, 87-89% = B+, and so on down to 60-62% = D- and below 60% = F), then converts that letter to its grade-point value. No single official nationwide percentage scale exists — schools set their own bands — so treat this as a common reference conversion, not your school's exact policy.
Check "I already have a cumulative GPA to combine this with," then enter your current GPA and total completed credit hours. The calculator recovers your existing quality points (GPA × credit hours), adds this term's new quality points, and divides by your combined credit hours — the same method university registrars use to combine multiple terms.
In most US usage, GPA (grade point average) usually means either a single term's average or your overall cumulative average, and CGPA (cumulative GPA) specifically means the running average across every term completed so far — the two terms are often used interchangeably for the cumulative figure. This calculator's "new cumulative GPA" result is what CGPA usually refers to.
Not in this calculator — A+ is capped at 4.0, the same as a plain A, matching the majority convention (including Scholaro's reference scale). A few schools award A+ up to 4.3 at the individual-course level, though even those typically still cap the overall cumulative GPA at 4.0 — check your school's official scale if this distinction matters for you.
No. The Grade Calculator finds your grade in one course from weighted categories (homework, quizzes, exams) or points earned. This GPA Calculator instead averages the final letter grades of multiple courses, weighted by each course's credit hours, on the 0-4 scale. Use the Grade Calculator for a single course's grade; use this page to combine grades across a semester or degree.
Yes — the credit-hour-weighted method is the same at any level. High school GPAs sometimes use a weighted scale that adds bonus points for AP, IB, or honors courses (commonly a 5.0 scale) — this calculator uses the standard unweighted 4.0 scale, so if your school reports a weighted GPA, expect this result to read lower than your transcript for a course load with advanced classes.
Disclaimer
This calculator uses the common 4.0 scale with a 0.3-point plus/minus offset and caps A+ at 4.0 — real, sourced conventions, but not a universal standard. Your school's official GPA may differ if it uses a 0.33-point offset, allows A+ above 4.0, uses a different percentage-to-letter scale, or excludes certain course types (pass/fail, repeated courses, transfer credit) from the GPA calculation. Always confirm your official GPA against your school's transcript or registrar.
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