Free cumulative GPA calculator: enter your current GPA and credits, add this semester's grades, and see your new overall GPA and the GPA needed for a goal.
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Turn your current GPA back into grade points: current GPA x credits so far. Add the grade points from the new semester (each grade's value x its credits), then divide by all the credits together.
Formula: new cumulative GPA = (old GPA x old credits + new grade points) / (old credits + new credits).
You cannot average the two GPAs. A 2.0 over 60 credits and a 4.0 over 15 credits is a 2.40, not a 3.0.
You have a 2.85 over 45 credits, which is 2.85 x 45 = 128.25 grade points. This semester you take 15 credits and earn a 3.40 term GPA, which is 51.0 grade points.
New cumulative GPA = (128.25 + 51.0) / (45 + 15) = 179.25 / 60 = 2.99.
To have finished this semester on a 3.0, you would have needed (3.0 x 60 - 128.25) / 15 = 51.75 / 15 = a 3.45 term GPA. From the new 2.99, reaching 3.0 after another 15 credits takes (3.0 x 75 - 179.25) / 15 = a 3.05 term GPA, which is what the target box below the result shows.
Multiply your current GPA by the credits it covers, add the grade points from your new courses, and divide by the total credits. The calculator does this as you enter your semester.
Only if every semester had the same number of credits. Otherwise each semester has to count in proportion to its credits, which is what the formula does.
Take your target times your total credits after next semester, subtract the grade points you already have, and divide by next semester's credits. Enter your target and the calculator gives the number.
Use the GPA credits or quality hours on your transcript or degree audit, not total earned credits: transfer and pass/fail credits usually do not count in GPA.
Usually not. They add no grade points and no GPA credits, so leave them out.