GPA Calculator

Your Grade Point Average (GPA) is the standard way schools summarize academic performance into a single number. It's a credit-weighted average of your course grades on a 4.0 scale (A = 4.0, B = 3.0, C = 2.0, D = 1.0, F = 0). Because it's weighted by credits, a 4-credit class affects your GPA more than a 1-credit class.

GPA shows up everywhere: scholarship applications, honor roll, college admissions, grad-school admissions, and even some employers' first-job hiring screens. This calculator handles weighted-by-credit math, supports any number of courses, and tells you the equivalent letter grade.

One semester with four classes:

• Calculus I — A (4.0) — 4 credits → 16 quality points
• English Lit — B+ (3.3) — 3 credits → 9.9 quality points
• Chemistry — A− (3.7) — 4 credits → 14.8 quality points
• History — B (3.0) — 3 credits → 9 quality points
• Total: 49.7 quality points / 14 credits
• GPA = 49.7 ÷ 14 = 3.55

• End-of-semester — checking your GPA before grades are officially posted.
• Mid-term planning — figuring out which classes need the most focus to hit your target.
• Course selection — projecting how a possible C in a hard elective would affect cumulative GPA.
• Transfer applications — calculating GPA on the receiving school's grading system.
• Scholarship eligibility — many require a minimum GPA each semester.

• Averaging semester GPAs. Always re-aggregate from quality points and credits — averaging GPAs ignores credit weighting.
• Ignoring +/− grades. An A− is 3.7, not 4.0. Including these correctly can shift your GPA by ~0.1.
• Mixing weighted and unweighted. Don't compare a 4.5 weighted high-school GPA to a 4.0 college unweighted GPA.
• Forgetting failed courses. An F counts as 0 in the average — and the credits are still in the denominator (unless retaken under a replacement policy).
• Not asking about repeat policies. Many schools let you replace a failed course's GPA impact by retaking it. Check your registrar.