How to Calculate Your Semester GPA

What you need

• The grade for each course this semester.
• The credit hours for each course.
• Your university's grade-point scale.

Five steps

1. Look up the grade points for each grade.
2. Multiply grade points by credit hours for each course.
3. Add those quality points together.
4. Add the credit hours together.
5. Divide quality points by credit hours and round per your university's rule.

Example

Four courses of 3 credits each, graded A (4.0), A- (3.7), B+ (3.3), and B (3.0):

Quality points = 3×(4.0 + 3.7 + 3.3 + 3.0) = 3 × 14.0 = 42. Credits = 12. Semester GPA = 42 ÷ 12 = 3.50.

Prefer not to do it by hand? Open the GPAWorld calculator and pick your university — it uses that university's own grade points, rounding, and CGPA formula.

Then update your CGPA

Once you have your semester GPA, you can roll it into your cumulative average. See how to calculate CGPA with credit hours.