How to Figure Out Your GPA for Financial Aid
- 1). Look up your alphabetic to numeric grade converter in your school's course catalog. This tells you how many points a letter grade is worth. Schools usually use a 4 for an A, 3 for a B, 2 for a C, 1 for a D and 0 for an F. However; how schools treat decimal places for pluses and minuses varies.
- 2). Multiply the numeric grade by the number of credit hours the course is worth. This is your quality points for the course. For example; if you have an A in a three-credit course and an A is worth 4 points, then 4 x 3 = 12 quality points.
- 3). Add together all your quality points for your classes to calculate your total quality points while in college.
- 4). Add together all your credits to find your total credits you took while in college.
- 5). Divide your total quality points from Step 3 by your total credits taken from Step 4 to calculate your GPA.
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