GPA Calculator

Each grade becomes points on the scale (A = 4.0, B = 3.0, and so on), those points are multiplied by the course’s credits to give quality points, and the total quality points are divided by the total graded credits. Three A grades in 3-credit courses and a C in a 4-credit lab is (36 + 8) ÷ 13 = 3.38, not the 3.5 you get by averaging the four grades — credits weight the harder-earned marks. It calculates your GPA online, cumulative GPA included: add your past credits and GPA, and it can show the weighted GPA for honors and AP or IB classes.

It depends on the school. On the standard 4.0 scale both are 4.0 and the plus is decoration. Some universities and many high schools award 4.3 for an A+, which lets a GPA exceed 4.0. This calculator offers both and names the one it used, because a 3.9 on one scale is not comparable to a 3.9 on the other.

A GPA that adds a bonus for harder courses — commonly 0.5 for honors and 1.0 for AP or IB — so an A in AP Chemistry counts 5.0. Colleges usually recompute on their own scale, so quote both figures. The bonus is not applied to a failing grade here, since the weighting rewards passing the harder course.

A pass earns the credits but contributes nothing to the GPA, so it neither raises nor lowers it. A fail in a pass/fail course is treated differently by different schools — some record it as an F at zero points. Enter it as F here if yours does. Withdrawn courses are not entered at all.

Turn the old GPA back into quality points by multiplying it by the credits it covers, add this term’s quality points, and divide by the combined credits. A 3.2 over 60 credits (192 points) plus a 3.8 over 15 credits (57 points) is 249 ÷ 75 = 3.32. Averaging 3.2 and 3.8 would give 3.5 and be wrong, because the two terms are different sizes.

The scale. An unweighted GPA calculator gives every class the same 4.0 ceiling: an A is 4.0 whether the course is regular or AP. A weighted GPA calculator adds a bonus for harder courses, typically 0.5 for honors and 1.0 for AP or IB, so an A in AP Calculus counts 5.0 and the overall figure can pass 4.0. A cumulative GPA calculator then combines terms by credit hours rather than averaging the term GPAs, which matters when terms carry different loads. This page shows all three so you can quote whichever a college or scholarship asks for.

Yes; the arithmetic is identical and only the weighting convention differs. A high school GPA calculator usually needs the weighted scale for honors and AP classes, which this page applies when you mark a course as weighted. A college GPA calculator almost always uses the plain 4.0 scale with credit hours, which is the unweighted mode. In both cases the semester GPA calculator part totals one term, and the cumulative figure combines terms by credits rather than averaging the term GPAs.

On the weighted scale an AP or IB grade earns 1.0 extra point, and honors 0.5, so an A in an AP class counts 5.0 instead of 4.0. How much that lifts the whole GPA depends on its share of your credits: with six equal 3-credit classes, all A grades, making one of them AP raises the weighted GPA from 4.00 to 4.17. The unweighted GPA does not change. Mark the class as AP / IB in the Level field to see your own figure.

Weight each semester by its credits, not by counting the two GPAs equally. A 3.2 over 12 credits and a 3.9 over 18 credits is (3.2 × 12 + 3.9 × 18) ÷ 30 = 3.62, where a plain average of the two would wrongly give 3.55. On this page, enter the earlier semester as the previous cumulative GPA with its credits, and this semester’s courses below.

Enter your previous cumulative GPA and its credits, this term’s courses, your target and the credits you still have to take. The page works out the GPA those remaining credits must average. For example, a 3.0 over 60 credits plus a term of B’s (15 credits) needs a 3.8 over the next 45 credits to reach 3.3. If the answer is above the top grade, it says so and shows the best you could reach.

On the standard 4.0 scale: A+ and 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. On the 4.3 scale an A+ is 4.3. Pass/fail grades earn no points and are left out of the GPA.

Multiply each course’s grade points by its credits, add those up, and divide by the total credits. An A (4.0) in a 3-credit class and a B (3.0) in a 4-credit class give (12 + 12) ÷ 7 = 3.43. That is how to calculate GPA by hand; the calculator above does it for every course, shows each step, and weights honors and AP classes when you mark them.

GPA means grade point average: your course grades turned into points, usually on a 4.0 scale where an A is 4, a B is 3, a C is 2, a D is 1 and an F is 0, then averaged with each course weighted by its credits.

Your official GPA is on your transcript or student portal. To find it yourself, enter each course’s letter grade and credits above; to see how this term changes your record, add your previous cumulative GPA and the credits it covers.