GPA Calculation

Calculating your grade point average (GPA) is fairly simple. First, you must calculate your quality points. Each grade you receive is worth a number of points per credit hour as follows:

A - 4 points
B - 3 points
C - 2 points
D - 1 points
F - 0 points

So, if you take a 4 credit-hour course, and make an A, you have earned 16 quality points. If you earn a B, you have 12 quality points. Of course, if you earn an F, 0 times any number is.....zero.

Determine the number of quality points for each course, then add up the total quality points you have earned.

Next, simply divide the total quality points you have earned, by the total number of hours of credit for which you have received a grade.

Here is an example:

A student earned the following grades for the indicated number of hours:

A - 4 credit hours.
A - 2 credit hours.
C - 3 credit hours.
F - 3 credit hours.
B - 2 credit hours.

4 times 4 = 16
4 times 2 = 8
2 times 3 = 6
0 times 3 = 0
3 times 2 = 6

Total quality points = 36
Total number of credit hours for which a grade has been earned = 14.
GPA = 36 divided by 14 = 2.57

Some grades do not count in your GPA

Courses earned in a remedial status do not count.
Courses applied toward CPC deficiencies do not count.
If you are a graduate student, undergraduate courses do not count in your graduate GPA.
Courses you have passed and then repeated do not officially count, although it may appear so if you look at the computer generated GPA.
If you repeat a course, only the final attempt counts in your GPA.
There are other examples, but for the most part, if you follow the above example, you can come up with your own GPA.

If You Have Quarter and Semester Work

If you have both quarter work and semester work, it is not a simple matter of adding the two GPA's together and dividing by two. To get an accurate GPA, you either have to convert the quarter work to semesters, or the semester work to quarters. A semester hour is about 1.5 quarter hours. We suggest you don't try this at home.