🎓 GPACalcy

About GPACalcy

An independent calculator for term and cumulative grade point averages. It is not a school, a registrar, or a testing agency.

Last updated: October 27, 2026

Who runs this site

GPACalcy is a small website published at gpacalcy.com. It is operated independently by the site publisher. There is no campus office behind it, no admissions staff, and no affiliation with the College Board, ACT, a state education department, or any college or school district.

The calculator is free to use. There is no account and no subscription. The homepage and the written guides may show ads through Google AdSense, which is how the site covers its costs. The about, contact, privacy, and terms pages do not carry that ad script. Advertising details are in the privacy policy.

The public contact address is [email protected]. Please use that address for corrections, privacy requests, and questions about a result. Expectations for a reply are on the contact page.

What the site is for

Students often need a quick, credit-weighted average: a term GPA from a list of courses, or a cumulative GPA that folds that term into credits already earned. GPACalcy does those two jobs and shows the quality points and credits it used, so you can check the arithmetic by hand.

It is a planning scratchpad. A number here does not change an official record. If a handbook, a degree audit, or a transcript legend disagrees with this page, the school's document wins.

How the calculation works

Each letter maps to grade points on the scale you select. On the 4.0 scale the map is A+ and A = 4.0, A− = 3.7, B+ = 3.3, B = 3.0, B− = 2.7, C+ = 2.3, C = 2.0, C− = 1.7, D+ = 1.3, D = 1.0, D− = 0.7, and F = 0.0. The 5.0 scale is those values plus 1.0, except F, which stays 0.0. The 10.0 scale is a separate table (A = 10.0, A− = 9.5, B+ = 9.0, B = 8.5, and so on down to D− = 5.0, F = 0.0). It is not 2.5 times the 4.0 table. The open "Grade Scale Reference" under the calculator lists every row for the scale currently selected.

In unweighted mode the page does this:

  • Quality points for a course = grade points × credits.
  • Term GPA = total quality points ÷ total credits.

Rows with no letter, or with credits of zero or less, are skipped. The credit box starts at 3, so change it when a course is worth something else. The result updates as you type. It is rounded to two decimal places for display, and it is not shown above the top of the selected scale (4.00, 5.00, or 10.00).

Weighted mode adds a per-course weight of 0.5, 1.0, 1.5, or 2.0. Quality points become grade points × credits × weight, and that same weight is applied to the credits in the denominator. A weight above 1 gives the course more pull. It does not turn an A into a 5.0. Many high schools mean something else by "weighted": a bonus, often +0.5 or +1.0, on AP, IB, or Honors grades, with credits left unchanged. That bonus can push a GPA above 4.0. This calculator's weight dropdown does not apply that bonus. If your school already publishes bonus points, enter the points your chart lists, or use a scale whose letters match that chart. The weighted and unweighted guide walks through both methods with the same courses.

Cumulative mode is optional. Check "Include previous GPA" and enter the cumulative GPA already on your record and the credits behind it. The page rebuilds previous quality points as previous GPA × previous credits, adds the term you just entered, and divides by the combined credits. You then see a term GPA and a cumulative GPA. Leave the box unchecked and only the rows on screen count. Because the displayed figure is capped at the scale maximum, a previous GPA above that maximum will not show through in the cumulative result.

What we do not do

  • We do not store your courses. The math stays in the browser. See Privacy.
  • We do not convert a single transcript number into another scale by multiplying. Scale changes need each course, or the school's own chart. See scale conversion.
  • We do not estimate admission chances, scholarship awards, or what a college "wants." Those decisions are published by the institutions themselves. See what a good GPA means.
  • We do not replace an advisor. Repeated courses, withdrawals, pass/fail, and grade replacement are campus rules. The calculator has no Pass grade; omit a course that should not affect the average.

Guides

Longer worked examples live in the guides: calculating a term GPA, weighted versus unweighted averages, cumulative GPA, moving between 4.0, 5.0, 10.0, and percent marks, raising a GPA, and reading a GPA in a college context. They use the same point tables as the calculator.