Grade calculator

Two questions, one calculator

The Course grade tab takes each graded component — assignments, midterm, final, labs — with the score you got and the weight it carries, and returns your weighted course grade as a percentage, a letter, or GPA points. The Final grade needed tab works backwards: it tells you the score you need on a final to finish the course where you want.

What makes this different

Two things generic grade calculators get wrong. First, when your component weights don't add up to 100% — which is normal mid-semester, before everything is graded — most tools silently rescale and report a misleading ‘course grade’. This one is honest: it shows your grade on the work done so far, tells you the weights only total (say) 50%, and shows how many points you've banked toward the full 100. Second, the GPA-points output is tied to your university's actual scale — an A is 4.0 on a standard scale, 4.33 at UBC or SFU, 9 at UVic, 10 at uOttawa, or 12 at Carleton — so the number matches your real transcript, not a one-size US default.

How the weighted average works

Your course grade is the sum of each component's score times its weight, divided by the total weight: grade = Σ(score × weight) ÷ Σ(weight). With a midterm worth 30% at 85% and assignments worth 20% at 78%, the midterm contributes more because it carries more weight. Percentage cutoffs for letters (A, A-, B+…) are a course convention; the GPA-points conversion uses your selected institutional scale.

Then see your GPA

Once you know your course grades, roll them into a term or cumulative figure with the cumulative GPA calculator, or plan backwards from a goal with the target GPA planner.