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Your GPA on five scales, with what you need from here.

Enter each course, its grade and its credit weight. The result is credit-weighted the way a transcript computes it, on whichever of five scales your institution uses — and the target mode solves backwards for the average you would need across the credits you have left.

Grading scale

The standard American 4.0 scale with plus/minus grades. A and A+ both count as 4.0 — most institutions do not award above 4.0 on an unweighted scale.

Course — row 1Grade — row 1Credits — row 1

Course — row 2Grade — row 2Credits — row 2

Course — row 3Grade — row 3Credits — row 3

Course — row 4Grade — row 4Credits — row 4

Cumulative — optional

Prior GPAFrom your transcript, before this term.Prior creditsCredits already counted toward it.

Target — what you need from here

Target GPACredits remaining

The formula used

GPA = Σ (grade points × credits) ÷ Σ credits

Credit-weighted, not an average of averages. A four-credit course moves the result twice as far as a two-credit one, which is why a strong grade in a small lab rarely rescues a term.

Term GPA

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Pick a grade and enter credits against at least one course.

This term: —
Quality points: 0.00
Credits counted: 0
Scale maximum: 4.0

To reach your target

Add some completed courses or a prior record first — a required average needs a starting point.

Not your registrar’s calculation. Institutions differ on repeats, pass/fail, transfer credit and rounding. Where they differ, they are right and this is not.

GPA is credit-weighted, not an average of averages.

A four-credit course moves your GPA twice as far as a two-credit one. That is the whole mechanism, and it is why a strong grade in a small lab rarely rescues a term and why one failed core module can undo three good electives.

It also explains the mismatch students most often report against their own transcript: averaging your semester GPAs together gives a different number, because semesters carry different credit loads. The cumulative figure recomputes across every credit attempted rather than treating each semester as one equal unit.

Questions about GPA

Why does my university's figure differ from this one?: Because institutions differ on the rules this calculator cannot know: whether a repeat replaces the original grade or averages with it, whether pass/fail credits count toward the denominator, how transfer credit is treated, and where rounding happens. Every one of those changes the result. Your registrar's calculation is the one that counts.
Should I use credits attempted or credits earned?: Attempted, in almost every case — a failed course usually still contributes its credits to the denominator, which is exactly why a fail hurts. But repeats and audited courses are handled differently by different institutions, so check your handbook rather than assuming.
Can a weighted GPA really go above 4.0?: Yes, and it is expected rather than an error. The honours bonus adds 0.5 and AP, IB or dual enrolment adds 1.0 on top of the base points, so a student taking a full advanced schedule and scoring well will land above 4.0. Colleges usually recalculate to their own scale anyway.
Why is averaging my semester GPAs giving a different answer?: Because that averages averages, which ignores that semesters carry different credit loads. A 12-credit semester and an 18-credit semester do not count equally toward a cumulative figure. This calculator recomputes across every credit, which is what your transcript does too — it is the single most common cause of a mismatch students report.
Is anything I type here stored?: No. The arithmetic runs in your browser, nothing is sent to a server, and there is no account to save it to. Close the tab and it is gone.

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