GPA calculator
See your term GPA in seconds, and fold in your prior record for a cumulative figure. Add your courses, pick each grade, enter the credit hours — and watch how a single course moves the number.
Your courses this term
The math behind GPA
GPA is a credit-weighted average of grade points. Each letter grade maps to a point value on the standard 4.0 scale (A = 4.0, A− = 3.7, B+ = 3.3, and so on). For each course, we multiply its grade points by its credit hours to get "quality points," add those up across all courses, and divide by total credit hours. Weighting by credits is why a five-credit course moves your GPA more than a one-credit one.
Enter a prior GPA and prior credit hours, and the tool also returns a cumulative figure — combining this term with your existing record — so you can see the number that actually appears on your transcript. Leave those blank to get just the term GPA.
Scale note
This uses the common unweighted 4.0 scale. Some schools use plus/minus differently, a 4.3 scale for A+, or their own conventions — treat the result as a close estimate and check against your institution's scale.
Why model your GPA before you decide anything
A GPA is one of the few numbers that follows you well beyond graduation — into scholarship eligibility, program admissions, licensure thresholds and sometimes hiring — which is exactly why it's worth understanding rather than fearing. The most useful thing this calculator does isn't reporting where you stand; it's letting you model where you'd stand under different outcomes. Add a struggling course at the grade you're afraid of, and you'll see precisely how much it drags the average. Often the damage is smaller than expected, because a single course is diluted across all your credits. Occasionally it's larger, particularly if the course is high-credit or your record is short. Either way, seeing the real figure lets you triage sensibly: which course actually threatens your standing, and which one you're worrying about out of proportion.
That triage is the same logic behind how thoughtful students use help. If the model shows one course genuinely jeopardising a GPA you need — for a nursing program's progression requirement, a scholarship, or graduate admission — that's the course worth protecting, whether by your own effort or by handing off the overflow. Our failing-your-class guide walks through the decision, and our pricing and how-it-works pages explain what support looks like if you decide you want it. As always, we'd rather the number talked you out of needing us than into it — which is why the tool is here, free, with nothing to sign up for.
One course dragging your GPA?
If the model shows a single course threatening your standing, tell us. We'll give you a fixed quote and an honest read on protecting it.