Unweighted GPA Calculator
An unweighted GPA on the 4.0 scale, with weighting switched off so no course earns a bonus for being an honors or an AP class. The page opens on five courses graded A, B+, A minus, B and A, which is 18 quality points over 5 credits and a GPA of 3.60. The letter table underneath is the whole scale the tool uses, printed rather than assumed.
| Course | Grade | Credits | Level | Points | Remove course |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Cumulative
Add the record you already have and this combines the two by quality points, which is not the same as averaging the two GPAs. Combining the unweighted semester GPA 3.60 over 5 credits with the record below.
Grade points on the 4.0 scale
A+ and A are both worth 4.0. The most common US convention. Weighting is off, so only the Points column is in use.
| Grade | Points | Honors +0.5 | AP or IB +1.0 |
|---|---|---|---|
| A+ | 4.0 | 4.5 | 5.0 |
| A | 4.0 | 4.5 | 5.0 |
| A− | 3.7 | 4.2 | 4.7 |
| B+ | 3.3 | 3.8 | 4.3 |
| B | 3.0 | 3.5 | 4.0 |
| B− | 2.7 | 3.2 | 3.7 |
| C+ | 2.3 | 2.8 | 3.3 |
| C | 2.0 | 2.5 | 3.0 |
| C− | 1.7 | 2.2 | 2.7 |
| D+ | 1.3 | 1.8 | 2.3 |
| D | 1.0 | 1.5 | 2.0 |
| D− | 0.7 | 1.2 | 1.7 |
| F | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
A failed course stays at zero however it is weighted: the honors and AP bonus applies only to a passing grade.
The 4.0 letter scale this page uses
Read straight off the scale the tool runs on, so the table and the answer cannot drift apart. Quality points are the grade points times the credits, which is why the same letter is worth more on a 4 credit course than on a 3 credit one. P, NP, W and I carry no points at any credit load.
| Grade | Grade points | Quality points at 3 credits | Quality points at 4 credits |
|---|---|---|---|
| A+ | 4.0 | 12 | 16 |
| A | 4.0 | 12 | 16 |
| A− | 3.7 | 11.1 | 14.8 |
| B+ | 3.3 | 9.9 | 13.2 |
| B | 3.0 | 9 | 12 |
| B− | 2.7 | 8.1 | 10.8 |
| C+ | 2.3 | 6.9 | 9.2 |
| C | 2.0 | 6 | 8 |
| C− | 1.7 | 5.1 | 6.8 |
| D+ | 1.3 | 3.9 | 5.2 |
| D | 1.0 | 3 | 4 |
| D− | 0.7 | 2.1 | 2.8 |
| F | 0.0 | 0 | 0 |
| P, NP, W or I | Not counted | Not counted | Not counted |
Common questions
- What is an unweighted GPA?
- The average when every course counts the same, whatever its difficulty. An A is 4.0 in an AP class and 4.0 in a regular one, so the scale stops at 4.0 and nothing on a transcript can push it past that. The five courses here are 4.0 + 3.3 + 3.7 + 3.0 + 4.0 = 18 quality points over 5 credits, so 18 ÷ 5 = 3.60.
- How do I convert my weighted GPA to unweighted?
- You cannot do it from the weighted number alone: the bonus has to come off course by course, and the weighted figure no longer says which courses carried one. Enter the grades themselves above with weighting off and the honest unweighted figure comes out. With weighting on, the tool shows both numbers at once for the same grades.
- What is a 3.6 GPA in letters?
- Between a B plus and an A minus, and closer to the A minus: 3.6 sits above the 3.3 a B plus is worth and below the 3.7 of an A minus. The table on this page gives every letter its points, and the two columns beside them show what a course is worth in quality points at 3 and at 4 credits, which is the arithmetic a transcript is actually built from.
- Is an A plus worth more than an A?
- Not on this scale. The 4.0 scale caps at 4.0 and treats an A plus and an A alike, which is the most common US convention. Some schools award an A plus 4.3, which lets a transcript pass 4.0 with no weighted courses at all. That is the second scale in the Scale control above, and nothing else on the ladder moves between the two.
- Do colleges use the weighted or the unweighted GPA?
- Many recalculate from your transcript to their own scale, which is often unweighted and sometimes counts only academic courses. That is the reason this page exists as its own view: the unweighted figure is the one you can state without also having to state a district's bonus policy.
Exact arithmetic on the scale shown: quality points are grade points times credits, and the GPA is their sum divided by credits. Which points a school assigns to an A+ and how it weights honors and AP courses vary; the controls state the convention used, and your registrar's figure follows their own.