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🎓 GPA Calculator

Enter your courses, grades and credit hours to get the credit-weighted GPA that actually goes on a transcript — then fold it into your cumulative GPA.

This term's courses

—Term GPA
—Credit hours
—Quality points

GPA is credit-weighted, not a plain average of your grades: a 3-credit course counts three times as much as a 1-credit one. Only graded courses count — pass/fail, credit/no-credit and withdrawn courses carry no grade points.

Cumulative GPA

—New cumulative GPA
—Total credits
—Change

This uses the term result from above, so calculate the term first. Old grades never leave the average — which is why one weak semester is hard to undo late in a degree, and why adding credits is usually faster than chasing perfect grades.

About the GPA Calculator

A grade point average is a credit-weighted mean of your grades. The weighting is the whole point: universities use it to stop a single hard 4-credit course from counting the same as a light 1-credit elective, and employers and graduate schools read it as a single comparable number across very different transcripts.

Working out the term figure by hand is where most people go wrong, because it is not an average of the letter grades you can see. You have to convert each grade to grade points, multiply by the credit hours, total both, and divide. That is exactly what this calculator does, and it then folds the result into your existing cumulative GPA — the number that actually appears on a transcript.

Frequently asked questions

How is GPA calculated?

Multiply each course's grade points by its credit hours, add all of those products together, then divide by the total credit hours. That sum of products is the 'quality points'. A 3-credit A (4.0) contributes 12 quality points and a 1-credit A contributes 4 — so credit hours, not the number of courses, decide the result.

What is the difference between weighted and unweighted GPA?

An unweighted GPA puts every course on the same 4.0 scale. A weighted GPA adds extra points for honours, AP or IB classes, often out to 5.0, so a hard course can lift the number above 4.0. This calculator produces the unweighted, credit-weighted figure that most universities report; if your school weights honours classes, enter the adjusted grade points your registrar uses instead.

Does a pass/fail course affect my GPA?

No. Pass/fail, credit/no-credit and withdrawn courses carry no grade points, so leave them out entirely. Entering them as an F or a 0 would drag the average down incorrectly.

How much can one bad semester lower my cumulative GPA?

Less than you fear, as long as you keep earning credits. The cumulative average is credit-weighted, so 60 existing credits plus a weak 12-credit term moves the number only slightly. The same maths means recovery is slow and steady rather than instant.

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