weighted GPA honors AP calculator
This preset opens the calculator on the US scale, ready for you to mark courses as honors or AP/IB and see the weighted GPA next to the plain GPA.
GPA 4.0 ignores the tier: (4.0x4x2 + 3.3x3x2 + 3.7x3)/17 = 62.9/17 = 3.70. GPA 5.0 uses the bonus: (5.0x4x2 + 3.8x3x2 + 3.7x3)/17 = 73.9/17 = 4.35.
4.0 + 1.0 = 5.0, exactly at the cap.
GPA 4.0 ignores the tier: (3.3x3 + 4.0x3)/6 = 21.9/6 = 3.65. GPA 5.0 adds +0.5 for honors: (3.8x3 + 4.5x3)/6 = 24.9/6 = 4.15.
GPA (Grade Point Average) is the weighted average of each letter grade's points by course credits: GPA = sum(points x credits) / sum(credits). The standard scale runs from 0 (F) to 4.0 (A or A+).
Honors adds +0.5 point and AP or IB add +1.0 point to that course letter-grade points, always capped at a maximum of 5.0 per course.
No. The +0.5 bonus for honors and +1.0 for AP/IB, capped at 5.0, is the most widely used convention, but each school can adopt different values, some use a 4.5 scale instead of 5.0. Confirm your school's own convention before comparing the number against another institution's.
No, both coexist: the 4.0 GPA is the universal reference used for comparison across schools, while the weighted GPA only exists as an additional number once some course has honors or AP.
To stop the bonus from pushing a single course result to an unbounded value, 5.0 is the conventional cap used by most schools that adopt this kind of weighted scale.
GPA (4.0 scale)
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