How to Calculate Overall Grades

Calculate school grades

When going to school one of the most important things are grades. Grades determine class rank and grade point average. The most common way a professor grades a class is by dividing the class into different types of assignments, such as homework, tests and class participation, and then assigning each type of assignment a percentage of the final grade.

Things You'll Need

• Class syllabus

Instructions

1. Separate assignments out into the type of assignment. For example, put exams in one pile, homework assignments in another pile.

2. Find the average of each type of assignment. For example, if a student's test scores were 92, 95, 88, and 99 out of 100 for each test, the average score is 93.5.

3. Multiply the average score for each type of assignment by the percent of the final grade. In the example, if tests are 60 percent of the final grade, then multiply 93.5 by 60 percent, which equals 56.1.

4. Add the different type of assignments together for a final grade out of 100. In the example, if class participation was nine points out of 10 possible, homework was 25 out of 30 possible and tests were 56.1 out of 60, then the final grade is nine plus 25 plus 56.1, which equals a final grade of 90.1.

References

• Richmond University: Calculating Your Grades
• University of California, Berkeley: Calculating Grades