Combine your previous academic record with the semester you are working on. Works on 4.0, 10-point, 5-point and 30-point scales, and handles the inverted German system correctly.
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CGPA, cumulative grade point average, is the credit-hour weighted average of every course you have attempted, across every semester. The weighting is the part people miss. Your CGPA is not the average of your semester GPAs; it is total quality points divided by total credit hours.
Quality points for a course are grade points × credit hours. A 4-credit course at 3.00 contributes
12 quality points. A 1-credit lab at 4.00 contributes 4. The heavier course pulls the average much harder,
which is why students who protect their GPA in labs while neglecting core courses are usually surprised by
their transcript.
Suppose you take 9 credits in your first semester and score 4.00, then 21 credits in your second and score 3.00. Averaging the two GPAs gives 3.50. The real CGPA is (36 + 63) ÷ 30 = 3.30. The gap appears whenever your credit load varies, and it always flatters the semester with fewer credits.
Because CGPA is cumulative, its inertia grows with every credit you complete. Early credits are cheap to fix; late credits are not. A student 30 credits into a 130-credit degree can move their CGPA substantially in one semester. The same student at 110 credits cannot, because there simply are not enough remaining credits to shift the denominator. If your CGPA is below where you want it, the single most valuable thing you can do is act early, and the target planner will show you exactly how much room you have left.
Courses marked W (withdrawn), I (incomplete) or T (transfer) are normally excluded from the average entirely, because they do not appear in the numerator or the denominator. An F, by contrast, counts fully: zero quality points across its full credit hours. That asymmetry is why withdrawing before the deadline is often mathematically better than failing, even though both mean retaking the course.
Grades such as XF or FA, a fail awarded for attendance shortage, behave exactly like an F, not like a withdrawal. This calculator applies each system's own rules rather than assuming.