How to Calculate Your GPA By Using Your Report Card

This straight-A report card would yield a 4.0 GPA.

Grade point average, or GPA, gives your teachers and college admissions officials a quick idea of your academic performance by assigning a number between 0 and 4, representing letter grades F to A. Throughout high school, your GPA is cumulative, so you can calculate your GPA by using the grades on all your high school report cards. There are two types of GPA: weighted and non-weighted.

Things You'll Need

• Report cards
• Calculator

Instructions

Non-weighted

1. Assign each letter grade a number. 0 is F, 1 is D, 2 is C, 3 is B and 4 is A.

2. Add these numbers. For example, if you received three A grades and a B grade for one semester and two B grades and two C grades the next, you would add 4 + 4 + 4 + 3 + 3 + 3 + 2 + 2. This gives you your total grade points.

3. Divide your total by the number of classes you took. In this example, you have 25 grade points. Divide it by 8, because you've taken eight classes. You have a non-weighted GPA of 3.125, rounded up to 3.13.

Weighted

1. Assign each class letter grade a number as before and multiply it by the number of credit hours that class is worth. For example, a 3-credit class in which you made an A is worth 12 points.

2. Repeat this process for all classes.

3. Add the grade points to get your grade point total. If you have a 2-credit class in which you received a B and two 3-credit classes in which you received an A, you have 30 grade points.

4. Divide by the total number of credit hours. Using the above schedule, you have 8 credit hours. 30 divided by 8 is 3.75. You have a weighted GPA of 3.75.

References

• GPA Calculator; How to Calculate Grade Point Average; 2011