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How to Calculate Your Semester GPA

Calculating your semester GPA takes just three steps and covers only the courses you took this term. Here's how.

Gather this term's courses

List every course you took this semester with the letter grade you earned and its credit hours. Ignore earlier semesters — that's for cumulative GPA.

Do the math

Convert each grade to grade points, multiply by credits, add them up, and divide by this term's total credits. For example: A (4.0) × 3, B (3.0) × 3, and A− (3.7) × 4 gives (12 + 9 + 14.8) ÷ 10 = 3.58 semester GPA.

Combine terms for cumulative GPA

Once you have each semester's GPA and credits, the cumulative GPA calculator combines them into your overall GPA, weighted by how many credits each term carried.