Add this term to the GPA already on your transcript, weighted by credit hours
Runs in your browser. Nothing you type is sent anywhere. Updated on 24 Oct 2026.Your cumulative GPA is not the average of your semester GPAs, and treating it as one is the commonest mistake here. Each term counts for the credit hours it carried, so a light term with straight A grades moves a heavy transcript far less than people expect. Enter your current GPA and the credit hours behind it, add this term below, and see where the two land together.
Enter this term's courses with their Grade and Credit hours.
Under "Already on your transcript", type your GPA so far.
Type the Credit hours behind it, as shown on your transcript.
Read the Cumulative GPA and Total credit hours next to the term GPA.
Two numbers decide an American GPA, and only two: the grade points of each course and the credit hours it carried. Multiply them for every course to get quality points, add them up, and divide by the total credit hours. A three-hour B and a four-hour A come to 25 quality points over 7 hours, which is 3.57 and not the 3.50 you get by averaging 3.0 and 4.0. That gap is the reason this page exists.
Three rows are never treated as a zero. A course with no grade yet is left out, because a blank is not an F. A pass/fail or audit course earns its credit hours but no grade points, which is how a real transcript handles it, so it is excluded from the division. A letter that does not exist on the chosen table is named rather than silently counted. Every skipped row says why, next to the row.
Cumulative GPA is not the average of your semester GPAs. Each term counts for the credit hours it carried, so a light term of straight A grades barely moves a transcript with ninety hours behind it. Enter the GPA already on record with its credit hours to see the real combined figure.
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Multiply each course's grade points by its credit hours to get quality points, add those up, and divide by the total credit hours. An A in a 4-hour course is 16 quality points; a B in a 3-hour course is 9. Together that is 25 over 7 hours, a GPA of 3.57.
Credit hours weight every course. A four-hour class counts a third more than a three-hour one, so a strong grade in a heavy course lifts the figure further than the same grade in a one-hour elective. Averaging the letters ignores that and usually gives a number a little too round to be real.
Half a point for honors and a full point for AP, IB or dual enrolment is the commonest arrangement, but the school decides. Some weight AP by half a point, some weight nothing. Both bonuses are editable here, so the weighted figure matches the transcript your school will actually issue.
Enter the GPA you have, the credit hours behind it, the hours still to take and the target. The answer is the average those remaining hours must carry. Where that average is higher than the best grade your school awards, the page says the target is out of reach instead of printing a number above the scale.
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