Grade / Final Grade Calculator

Most courses don't average every assignment equally — instead, assignments are grouped into categories (homework, quizzes, midterms, a final exam) and each category is worth a fixed percentage of the overall grade regardless of how many individual items are in it. A single 40%-weighted final exam can outweigh a dozen small 2%-weighted homework assignments combined.

This calculator treats any category with a blank score as "not yet graded" and excludes it from your current grade, renormalizing across whatever categories you do have scores for. That's different from treating a blank as a zero, which would understate your current standing.

The "what score do I need" tool solves the same equation in reverse: given every other category's score and weight, it works out exactly what you'd need on the one remaining category to land on a specific overall grade — the same backward-solving idea used by our GPA Calculator's target-GPA planner.

A grade percentage isn't directly useful for GPA math — GPA runs on letter grades and credit hours. Once this calculator has a current or projected grade, it converts that percentage to a letter using a standard scale and lets you add it straight into the GPA Calculator as a real course, with the name and credit hours you specify — no need to work out the letter grade by hand or re-type anything.

Already have a percentage grade from somewhere else, like a gradebook app? Our Percentage Calculator can help with any conversion math before you enter a score here.