Add each course with its grade — the GPA updates live as you go, on whichever scale your school uses. No credit hours at your school? Uncheck the toggle below for a simple average.
Uncheck this if your school doesn't use credit hours — common outside the US — and this switches to a simple average across courses instead.
Saved semesters on this device — combine them for a running cumulative GPA. Only mix semesters on the same grading scale.
| Semester | Credits/courses | GPA |
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What average grade do you need in your remaining courses to hit a goal GPA?
Each course's grade is converted to grade points on your selected scale, multiplied by that course's credit hours, then all of those are summed and divided by total credit hours: GPA = Σ(grade points × credits) ÷ Σ(credits) — so higher-credit courses count more toward the final GPA than a simple average of letter grades would suggest.
The 4.0 scale is standard across the US and Canada (A=4.0 down to F=0), and is what most US graduate school and job applications expect to see. The 5.0 scale is typically a weighted variant used by US high schools that give extra credit for honors, AP, or IB-level courses, so a straight-A student in all honors classes can post above a 4.0. The 10.0 scale is common in India (most universities under UGC-aligned grading) and used in some European systems, generally based on percentage marks converted to grade points via each institution's own conversion table.
The UK doesn't use GPA at all for undergraduate degrees — it uses classifications (First, Upper Second/2:1, Lower Second/2:2, Third), derived from weighted module marks out of 100, not grade points. Continental Europe largely uses the ECTS grading scale (A through F, or a national equivalent like Germany's 1.0–5.0 inverted scale where 1.0 is best). None of these convert to a US GPA on a fixed formula — international students and employers typically rely on published conversion tables (e.g., a UK First ≈ US 3.7–4.0, a German 1.0–1.5 ≈ US 3.7–4.0) rather than an exact mathematical mapping, because the underlying grading philosophies differ. If you need an official conversion for an application, use the target institution's own equivalency table rather than a generic one.
Yes — each course row has a remove button once there's more than one row, so you can delete any entry and the GPA recalculates immediately.
Grade point values for A-, B+, and similar can vary slightly between institutions (some use 3.7 for A-, others 3.67, for example) — check your school's official grading scale and adjust which grade option you pick accordingly, since small differences can shift a borderline GPA, especially near scholarship or honors cutoffs.
Typically no — Pass/Fail courses usually aren't factored into GPA at most institutions, so they shouldn't be added as a row here. Check your school's specific policy, since this does vary, and some schools cap how many Pass/Fail courses can count toward a degree specifically because they don't affect GPA.
Semester (or term) GPA covers only the courses taken in that specific term; cumulative GPA covers every credit-bearing course across your entire academic record. To find your new cumulative GPA after a term, add this term's rows to all your previous courses in the same calculator — since the formula is credit-weighted, it naturally combines both correctly as one running total rather than averaging two separate GPA numbers together (averaging two GPAs directly, ignoring credit hours, is a common and easy mistake).
It depends heavily on how many credits you've already accumulated — a single course has far more impact on a first-semester GPA than on a GPA built from 90 credits already. This is exactly why the credit-weighted formula matters: use this calculator to test "what if" scenarios by adding a hypothetical grade and seeing the shift before it happens for real.
Worked example: two courses — an A (4.0) worth 4 credits, and a B (3.0) worth 3 credits — give a GPA of (4×4 + 3×3) ÷ (4+3) = (16+9) ÷ 7 = 3.57, not a simple average of 3.5, since credit hours weight the result. On the 10.0 scale, the equivalent might be an A (9 or 10 points) and a B (7 or 8 points) depending on your institution's specific conversion table.
To work out what you need on the final exam to reach a target, use the Grade Calculator.