College · College Success

Know your GPA before
the registrar tells you.

Enter each course's credits and grade. See the term and cumulative GPA, how a repeated course changes it, and the term GPA it takes to reach the number a scholarship or program asks for.

Work out my GPA What you get

The calculator

The worked example is two first-year terms after 30 earlier credits, with a pass/fail seminar and a repeated course. Switch to Family mode to read a student's grade report together.

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What you get

College · College SuccessAlso for College · Family ResourcesFreeStudent and Family modes

What you finish with: Your term and cumulative GPA, credits and quality points, the term GPA needed for a target, where you stand against the federal 2.0 progress line and any GPA you must keep, a printable report and a .csv of your courses.
Who it is for: College students checking grades at the end of a term or planning the next one, dual-enrollment students, and parents and families going over a grade report with their student.
Format: Browser tool with Student and Family modes. Works on a phone or computer and from the keyboard. Print the report or save a spreadsheet file.
Access: Free. No account and no sign-in. Grades stay in this browser; nothing is sent to Caveat or the college.
Where it lives: The College Success space in Caveat College; also listed for Family Resources (the Family mode, for parents reading a grade report with their student).
Support: Questions, a correction or a request: team@caveatacademic.com.

How to use it

Pick the grade scale and repeat policy your college's catalog uses. Most use plus/minus with A+ worth 4.0.
Enter earlier graded credits and cumulative GPA from your last transcript, if you have them.
Add each course with its credits and grade. Pass/fail, withdrawals and incompletes stay out of the GPA.
Set a target and next term's credits to see the term GPA it takes, then print or save the report.

Work out my GPA

How a college GPA is calculated

Credit-weighted grade points, the same method registrars use.

The arithmetic

Each grade has points (A = 4.0, B+ = 3.3 on the common scale). Points times credits gives quality points.
GPA is total quality points divided by total graded credits. A 4-credit B counts more than a 1-credit A.
Earlier work enters as credits times the earlier GPA. A repeat under a replace policy takes the earlier attempt out of both totals.
To reach target T after n more credits: needed term GPA = (T × (credits + n) − quality points) ÷ n.

Where colleges differ

Some count A+ as 4.33; some use whole letters only; some round GPA and some cut it off after two decimals.
Repeat rules vary: replace, average, or replace only once. Some colleges count WF or NP as an F.
Transfer and dual-enrollment credit usually comes in without grades and does not enter the new college's GPA.
The college catalog and the registrar's transcript are the official word.

The worked example, checked with exact fractions when the page is built: 30 earlier credits at 3.10 (93 quality points), a fall term of 15 graded credits and 50.8 quality points (3.39, cumulative 3.20), and a spring term of 17 credits at 3.45 that includes a B replacing an earlier D in a 3-credit course. Cumulative: 199.5 quality points on 59 credits, 3.38. Reaching 3.50 after 15 more credits takes a 3.97 term. Courses are made up.

Sources

Code of Federal Regulations, 34 CFR 668.34, Satisfactory Academic Progress: in programs longer than two academic years, a GPA of at least a C or its equivalent at the end of the second academic year (ecfr.gov).
Federal Student Aid, "Staying Eligible" at studentaid.gov, on keeping federal aid through satisfactory academic progress.
U.S. Department of Education, Student Privacy Policy Office, FERPA guidance for parents: rights pass to the student at a postsecondary institution (studentprivacy.ed.gov).
The grade-point values are the common 4.0 plus/minus scale published in college catalogs; check your own college's catalog.

General information. Your college's catalog and registrar set the official grade scale, repeat rules and GPA. Scholarship and program GPA rules are in their own terms. Support: team@caveatacademic.com.