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Homeschool GPA calculator

Add each course with its letter grade and credits. You get the unweighted GPA, the weighted GPA if you mark honors or AP courses, and a page to print.

Work out the GPA

1. Your courses

A full-year course is usually 1 credit and a one-semester course 0.5. Use the credits your family has set.

Course 1
Course 2
Course 3
Course 4
Percent to letter (optional)

Common bands: 90 and up is an A, 80 to 89 a B, 70 to 79 a C, 60 to 69 a D.

Choose a grade for at least one course to see the GPA.

GPA summary

Your courses, grades and the GPA, with the scale it uses. To keep a PDF, choose Save as PDF in the print window.

GPA

Unweighted GPA – · 0 credits earned

CourseSubjectLevelGradeCreditsPoints

Scale: A+ and A 4.0, A- 3.7, B+ 3.3, B 3.0, B- 2.7, C+ 2.3, C 2.0, C- 1.7, D+ 1.3, D 1.0, D- 0.7, F 0. GPA = grade points times credits, added up, divided by the credits. Weighted GPA adds 0.5 for honors and 1.0 for AP, IB or dual enrollment on a passing grade. Pass/fail courses earn credit and are not in the GPA.

How the GPA is worked out

  • Each grade has points. On the 4.0 scale an A is 4, a B is 3, a C is 2, a D is 1 and an F is 0. Plus and minus grades move it by about a third.
  • Credits count. A full-year course of 1 credit counts twice as much as a half-year course of 0.5.
  • Add, then divide. Multiply each grade’s points by its credits, add them up, and divide by the total credits.
  • Weighted GPA. Many schools add 0.5 for honors and 1.0 for AP, IB or dual enrollment. Some do not weight at all. Colleges often work out their own.

For the whole of high school on one page, use the high school transcript builder. It uses the same math.

Print. Scan. The record fills itself.

For the younger ones: print a PencilGo sheet, your child works in pencil, and you scan it. PencilGo marks it, picks the next sheet and keeps the record. Free, about five minutes a day.

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The calculator does arithmetic from the grades and credits you type, on the scale shown. Schools and colleges use different scales. Check what the school or college you apply to asks for.