Use this free GPA calculator: enter each course’s letter grade and credits to get your GPA. Switch on weighting for honors and AP courses, choose a 4.0 or 4.3 scale, and add your previous GPA to see your cumulative GPA after this term.
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Enter at least one course with a grade and credits to see your GPA.
| Course | Grade | Type | Credits | Grade points | Quality points |
|---|
Your GPA is your total quality points divided by your total credits. For each course, multiply its grade points by its credits to get quality points, add them up, and divide by the credits. In the example below, a B+ (3.3) in a 4-credit course, an A- (3.7) in 3 credits, a B (3.0) in 3 credits and an A (4.0) in 2 credits give 41.3 quality points over 12 credits, a GPA of 3.44. The GPA calculator above does this for you, for term, weighted and cumulative GPA.
Each letter grade is worth a number of grade points. On the common 4.0 scale an A is 4, a B is 3, a C is 2, a D is 1 and an F is 0. Multiply each course’s grade points by its credits to get its quality points, add those up, and divide by the total credits. A 4-credit B earns 12 quality points, and a 2-credit A earns 8, so a longer course moves your GPA more.
Courses with a grade and no credits cannot be counted, and credits with no grade are flagged, so nothing is guessed. Leave pass/fail, withdrawn and audit courses out, because most schools do not count them. If you only have percentages, convert them first with the percentage to letter grade converter.
An unweighted GPA treats every course the same, so the top possible GPA is 4.0. A weighted GPA adds a bonus to harder courses. This calculator uses the common example values of +0.5 for honors and +1.0 for AP, IB or dual-enrollment courses. The bonus is added only when the course earns more than 0 grade points, so a failing grade stays at 0. Schools differ on weighting, so check your own policy.
With weighting on, the calculator shows the weighted GPA and the unweighted GPA side by side.
To see where this term leaves your overall GPA, enter your current GPA and the credits behind it. The calculator multiplies them to get your earlier quality points, adds this term’s quality points, and divides by the combined credits. Use the same scale and weighting for the old and new numbers, or the result will not mean much.
| Letter | Standard 4.0 | Plus/minus 4.0 | Plus/minus 4.3 |
|---|---|---|---|
| A+ | – | 4.0 | 4.3 |
| A | 4.0 | 4.0 | 4.0 |
| A- | – | 3.7 | 3.7 |
| B+ | – | 3.3 | 3.3 |
| B | 3.0 | 3.0 | 3.0 |
| B- | – | 2.7 | 2.7 |
| C+ | – | 2.3 | 2.3 |
| C | 2.0 | 2.0 | 2.0 |
| C- | – | 1.7 | 1.7 |
| D+ | – | 1.3 | 1.3 |
| D | 1.0 | 1.0 | 1.0 |
| D- | – | 0.7 | 0.7 |
| F | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
Quality points = Grade points × Credits
GPA = Sum of quality points ÷ Sum of credits
Cumulative GPA = (Old GPA × Old credits + New quality points) ÷ (Old credits + New credits)
Example 1, plus/minus 4.0 scale: Biology B+ (4 credits), English A- (3), History B (3), Art A (2).
| Course | Grade | Credits | Grade points | Quality points |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Biology | B+ | 4 | 3.3 | 13.2 |
| English | A- | 3 | 3.7 | 11.1 |
| History | B | 3 | 3.0 | 9 |
| Art | A | 2 | 4.0 | 8 |
The total is 41.3 quality points over 12 credits, so the GPA is 41.3 ÷ 12 = 3.44. If your GPA before this term was 3.2 over 30 credits, the cumulative GPA is (96 + 41.3) ÷ 42 = 3.27.
Example 2, standard scale with weighting: AP Calculus A (4 credits, 5.0 points), Honors English B (3 credits, 3.5), Chemistry B (4 credits, 3.0), PE A (1 credit, 4.0). The quality points are 20 + 10.5 + 12 + 4 = 46.5 over 12 credits, a weighted GPA of 3.875, shown as 3.88. Without weighting it is 41 ÷ 12 = 3.42.
Schools set their own grade points, weighting and rounding, so check your transcript key first. For background on how grade point averages work, see Academic grading in the United States and Grading in education on Wikipedia.
Yes. It is free, needs no sign-up, and runs in your browser. Your courses and grades are not sent anywhere or saved.
Use the one your school publishes. If your transcript lists A+ as 4.0, choose plus/minus 4.0. If it lists 4.3, choose plus/minus 4.3. If your school only uses A to F, choose the standard scale. You can also edit the grade points.
It applies to any grade worth more than 0 points, including a D. A failing grade worth 0 stays at 0. Some schools only add the bonus for a C or better, so check your policy.
Use the credit hours or units your school assigns to each course. If every course counts the same, enter 1 for each.
Schools can use different grade points, weighting rules, rounding and treatment of repeated courses. This calculator is a clear estimate. Your school’s transcript is the official record.
Yes. Enter the grade you expect. The result is then a forecast, not a record.
No. Only your decimal and shortcut settings are saved on this device.
No. It is a quick, transparent calculation. See the disclaimer.