How to calculate GPA?

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GPA, Grade PointAverage, which translates to average score, while in the United States we usually refer to weighted average score.

In the United States, teachers generally grade students according to A, B, C, D and F(fail) from high to low, and convert them into numerical scores with a perfect score of 4, which is like this: A:4; A-: 3.7; B+:3.3; B:3; B-: 2.7; C+:2.3; C: 2; C-: 1.7; D+: 1.3; D: 1; F(fail): 。 In fact, it is the same as the above to convert the scores of each of our courses with full marks of 1% into full marks of 4%. The difference of each school is that the scores of 95% and above in A University correspond to 4., 93-94 corresponds to 3.9, 91-92 corresponds to 3.8, 88-9 corresponds to 3.7, and so on. And in University B, 9 points and above correspond to 4., 88-89 to 3.9, 85-87 to 3.8, and 83-84 to 3.7. Therefore, the key step in GPA conversion is to find out the equivalence between the 1-point system and the 4-point system in your university. This is the difference between the well-known Peking University algorithm, standard algorithm and Tsinghua algorithm.

before calculation, we also need to understand a concept-credits. The credits of each course are different. Credits are not scores, but usually represent the importance of this course. For example, core courses usually have four credits, while some very unimportant courses only have one credit. Knowing this, how to convert GPA is much simpler. For example, a student took four courses in University A (of course, it is impossible to have so few courses), for example, advanced mathematics (4 credits) 96 points, English (3 credits) 9 points, photography (1 credit) 92 points and Theory of Three Represents (4 credits) 94 points. Just convert them into advanced courses. Then the GPA of this student is (4.x4+3.7x3+3.8x1+3.9x4)/(4+3+1+4) = 3.875.

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