GPA Calculator
Term GPA and cumulative GPA from your grades and credits. Every row shows the grade point the scale gave it, the weighting a harder course added, and the multiplication by credits — so the answer can be checked rather than taken.
By Alex Seote, Built and maintains Rule Calculator
Scales and weighting last reviewed · How we check
The most common US scale. A+ and A are both 4.0, so an unweighted GPA cannot exceed 4.0 — which is why a transcript showing 4.2 is always weighted.
| Grade | Credits | Level | Points | × credits | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 12 | ||||
| 3.3 | 13.2 | ||||
| 3.7 + 1 = 4.7 | 14.1 |
This term
3.93
39.3 quality points over 10 credits.
Where it leaves your cumulative GPA
There is no standard four-point scale
This is the part every other GPA calculator leaves out. Grade points are a convention, not a standard: no federal body publishes them, and schools differ on three things that change the answer — whether a minus costs 0.3 or nothing, whether an A+ is worth 4.0 or 4.3, and how much a harder course adds. A calculator that hides its scale is answering a question it has not asked you.
- Four-point, plus and minus
- The most common US scale. A+ and A are both 4.0, so an unweighted GPA cannot exceed 4.0 — which is why a transcript showing 4.2 is always weighted.
- Four-point, A+ counts 4.3
- Used where an A+ is meant to be worth more than an A. It lets an unweighted GPA pass 4.0, so check your handbook before assuming it applies.
- Whole letters only
- No credit for a minus and no penalty either: every A is 4.0, every B is 3.0. Common in middle schools and in some colleges, and it raises most GPAs slightly.
How a GPA is worked out
- 1.Turn each letter grade into a grade point using your school’s scale.
- 2.Add the weighting for the course level, if the school weights at all. An F gets none.
- 3.Multiply that by the credits for the course. The result is the quality points for that row.
- 4.Add every row’s quality points, and add every row’s credits.
- 5.Divide the quality points by the credits. That is the GPA.
Questions people actually ask
- Why is my GPA lower than my grades look?
- Because a GPA is a weighted mean rather than an average of the letters. A four-credit C and a one-credit A come to 2.4, not 3.0: the C is carrying four times the weight. The credit column in the table above is where that happens, and it is the single most common surprise on this page.
- Can an unweighted GPA be above 4.0?
- Only on a scale that prices an A+ at 4.3. On the ordinary four-point scale an A+ and an A are both 4.0, so anything above 4.0 on a transcript came from weighting — an AP or honours course adding to the grade point before credits are applied.
- How much does an AP course add?
- A full point at most schools and half a point for honours, which is the default here, but it is a local decision rather than a national rule. Some districts weight only the final year, some cap the number of weighted courses, and some do not weight at all. Check the handbook before treating a weighted figure as portable.
- Does a failed AP course still get the bonus?
- Not here. An F is zero on every scale, and adding a weighting point to zero would pay a student for taking the harder version of a course they did not pass. Schools that weight failures are rare enough that the opposite default would mislead more people than it helped.
- What is a quality point?
- The grade point multiplied by the credits for that course — the number that actually gets summed. Divide the total quality points by the total credits and you have the GPA. Every row above prints its own, so the total can be checked a line at a time rather than trusted.