Work out the average you need in your remaining credits to reach a target GPA
Runs in your browser. Nothing you type is sent anywhere. Updated on 24 Oct 2026.Wondering what it takes to pull a 2.8 up to a 3.2 before you graduate? Enter the GPA you have, the credit hours behind it, the hours you still have to take and the figure you are aiming at. The answer is the average those remaining hours must carry, and when that average is higher than any grade your school awards, the page says so rather than printing an impossible number.
Enter your GPA so far and the Credit hours behind it.
Type your Target GPA under "What you need".
Type the Credit hours still to take before graduation.
Read the average you need on the remaining credits, or the note that the target is out of reach.
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.
Weighting is the same story. An honors course typically adds half a point and an AP, IB or dual enrolment course a full one, which is how a transcript ends up showing 4.3 on a four-point scale. Typically is doing a lot of work in that sentence: plenty of schools weight AP by half a point and some weight nothing. Both bonuses are boxes on this page, so the figure you get is the figure your school would print.
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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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.
Both, depending on the school. Most American universities cap the scale at 4.0 and treat A+ and A identically; some award 4.3 for an A+, which lets an unweighted GPA pass 4.00. Pick the table printed in your own catalogue, because no calculator can know which one applies to you.
No. A pass/fail or audit course earns its credit hours but carries no grade points, so it is left out of the division entirely. Mark the row as pass/fail and the credit hours stop counting in the average, exactly as a registrar would treat them.
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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