Add as many courses as this term actually has, carry over your prior GPA and credits, then copy or print the result.
Letter grade & credit hours per course
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College transcripts almost always run on the same plus-and-minus 4.0 scale this calculator defaults to: A is 4.0, each plus or minus step moves 0.3 or 0.7 in the expected direction, and F is 0.0. Every course row you add gets its letter grade converted to this point value before anything else happens.
Most colleges report an unweighted GPA on this exact 4.0 maximum. If your school weights honors or AP-equivalent college courses, use the weighted GPA calculator instead.
Quality points are grade points multiplied by credit hours, and your GPA is the sum of every course's quality points divided by the sum of every course's credits. That means a 4-credit organic chemistry course with a B- moves your GPA about four times as much as a 1-credit lab section with a straight A. When people say "protect your GPA in your hardest semester," what they usually mean is protect it in your highest-credit courses, because those are mathematically where most of the movement happens.
The prior-GPA field extends the same logic across terms. Your existing GPA is itself a stand-in for a running total of quality points and credits; entering it alongside your prior credit count lets the calculator fold this term's new courses into that running total instead of starting over.
Say you enter four courses this term: an A worth 3 credits, a B+ worth 4 credits, an A- worth 3 credits, and a B worth 3 credits, for 13 total credits. Quality points: 12.0 + 13.2 + 11.1 + 9.0 = 45.3. Divide by 13 credits and this term's GPA is 3.48. Now add a prior GPA of 3.20 across 45 credits: prior quality points are 3.20 times 45, or 144.0. Add this term's 45.3 to get 189.3 total quality points, and add 13 to 45 for 58 total credits. Divide 189.3 by 58 and the new cumulative GPA comes out to 3.26, pulled slightly below this term's 3.48 by the larger, lower-average base it is joining.
Because your prior credits are already carrying most of the weight. If you enter 60 prior credits and add a 15-credit term, that new term is only about a fifth of your total credit base, so even a very different term GPA shifts the cumulative number by a smaller amount than you might expect.
Yes. Use the Add course button under the course list as many times as you need; there is no built-in cap. Each row you add gets folded into the same running total automatically.
Yes. Leave both prior fields empty and the calculator treats this term as your entire academic record so far, which is exactly right for a first-semester GPA.
It should, provided your school uses the standard plus-and-minus 4.0 scale and counts every graded course toward GPA. Some schools exclude repeated courses, transfer credits, or certain electives from the official calculation, which this tool has no way to know about.
The Copy link button encodes your current course grades and credit hours into the page's web address. Anyone who opens that link, an advisor, a study partner, or you on another device, sees the same courses pre-filled and the same GPA calculated.