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Originally Posted by Autumn Demon
GPA is for high school and college (Americans say college, not university).
Usually GPA's are calculated like this: each course letter grade is given a numerical value according to the below chart and your GPA is the average of all your course grades.
A - 4
B - 3
C - 2
D - 1
F - 0
Some schools which use pluses and minuses add or subtract .3 points or so, so a B+ would be a 3.3 and a C- would be a 1.7.
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To add to that, A+ is the same as an A and there is no F+ or F-. Also, colleges calculate GPA a little differently, they take the course credit into account and use +/- .3. So GPA = sum( grade value * credits) / total credits.
Example:
Math 4 credits 4.00
Physics 5 credits 3.30
Chemistry 5 credits 2.70
GPA = (4*4.00 + 5 *3.30 + 5 * 2.70) / 14
GPA = 3.29