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Diligent students should calculate their GPA every quarter in order to find out how what progress they make. Calculating your grade point average¹ is not a very difficult task. The main thing is to understand several basic terms. As a rule, it is calculated by summing up all your grade values and then dividing it by the number of your classes.

If you need to calculate the grade point average for college, it is a bit more complicated. The process is described in a step-by-step instruction below.

• Make a list of all your courses with letters assigned to each of them. The values of these letters are the following:
  Letter

  Value

  F

  0

  D-

  0.7

  D

  1

  D+

  1.3

  C-

  1.7

  C

  2

  C+

  2.3
  
  
  
Letter
Value
B-
2.7
B
3
B+
3.3
A-
3.7
A
4
A+
4



• Write down these values for all the letters you have got.
• Determine how many credit hours are assigned to your course. You can get the information in the classes' schedule or in the catalog. Write them down next to the letter values.
• Now you should multiply each letter value by the corresponding credit hours. This way you will calculate your grade points for all the courses.
• Add up all the grade points. Divide the sum total by the amount of your credit hours.

This information will help you to find out if you have to get tutoring in order to raise the grades. Remember that many grants are not available to the students who have not met the minimal requirements.

Extra Tips

You can raise your grade point average if you take a course with high credit hours and obtain good marks.

If you want to raise the GPA, go to student services and consult them about available tutoring options.

You can find special websites in the Internet which help to calculate GPAs automatically. All you have to do is put in your marks for the subjects, and the program will calculate your grade point average. Try to find the online calculator suitable for your college.

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