Now that you already tried out our College GPA Calculator, it is important to know a bit more about College GPA as well as how you can easily calculate it by yourself.

In case you don't know, GPA stands for grade point average and it is a score that is based on your letter grades for each semester. When you want to calculate your College GPA, you already know that you can't use letter grades. So, you will need to convert them numbers according to a scale.

One of the things that you need to know about college GPA is that there isn't a universal formula that is accepted by all schools by all countries. Nevertheless, you should use the most common approach that is exactly the one that we are about to show you.

If there is something that you need to know is that there are mainly two different ways to calculate your college GPA: the simple GPA calculation methods and the weigh GPA calculation method. The main difference between the two is that the weigh GPA calculation method uses the number of credits of each course that you take. So, it tends to be a better way to calculate your college GPA and is definitely the method that is more commonly used.

How To Calculate Your College GPA Manually:

The first thing you need to do to calculate your college GPA is to write down your grades for each course that you already took, divided by semester. Up to this point, your grades are all letter grades, So, you will need to use a scale to convert them into numbers. This is the only way to make all the calculations.

Just as a note, when you are using our GPA College Calculator, you don't need to make any of these conversions. You just need to choose the letter grade you asked and the calculator immediately converts it into numbers.

In order to convert your letter grades into numbers, just use the following table:

As we already mentioned above, you need to know how many credits each one of the courses you had is worth in order to calculate your weigh college GPA.

One of the best ways to understand how all these works is by giving you a practical example. Let's say that Tom just completed his first semester and he wants to know how he is doing. So, here are all the courses that he took for this semester as well as the credits for each course:

Now that Tom already wrote down all his grades and the respective credits of the courses he took during this semester, we can start calculating Tom's weigh college GPA.

As you already know, the first thing Tom will need to do is to convert his letter grades into numbers using the scale provided.
So, he will end up with the following:

* Step #2: Calculate The Weighed Grades:
As you know, in order to determine your college GPA, Tom will need to consider both the grades as well as the credits for each course he took. So, To will need to multiply each grade value by the number of credits for each course he took:

• Calculus: 4.0 x 3 = 12
• Psychology: 3.3 x 4 = 13.2
• History: 3 x 3 = 9
• Chemistry: 2.7 x 3 = 8.1
• Algebra: 3.7 x 2 = 7.4

* Step #3: Summing All Up:
In order to calculate your college GPA, Tom will need to use the total number of the credits of the courses he took as well as the total of his weighted grades.
So, simply put:

Now, in order to Tom discover his college GPA for the semester, he just needs to divide the total of weighted credits by the total of credits of all course:
Tom's College GPA = 49.7 / 15 = 3.31
As you can see, it's very easy to calculate your college GPA manually. However, when you are in a hurry or simply don't want to be doing all these calculations, just use our College GPA Calculator. In fact, why don't you confirm Tom's results?