Percentage To GPA Conversion
September 5, 2008 by Raghu
Applying to U.S. Universities require you to enter GPA. But if transcripts have grades in percentage then students try to convert
- Convert Percentage(100) to GPA(4.0)
- Convert CGPA(10.0) to GPA(4.0)
I was in the same situation and few years back searching for different ways to use the GPA Calculator and came to know what to expect while calculation GAP.
GPA Converter
If you are looking for some table
| Percentage | GPA |
|---|---|
| 81 to 100 | 4.0 |
| 61 to 80 | 3.50 |
| 51 to 60 | 3.00 |
| 41 to 50 | 2.50 |
| < 40 | 2.00 |
I can very well say, you are making a huge mistake. If you want to know why above table will not work, you need to first understand what is GPA and how GPA is calculated.
Grade Point Average (GPA)
Percentage Score (1 to 100) is used various countries, but in U.S. Schools use GPA system is used fo grading studnets.
GPA Vs Percentage
Both GPA and % assigns grades to students, they are essentially calculated in different ways. They are not the same or its not possible to equate or compare.
How GPA is Calculated
Grades will be assigned to student for each course ( A = 4.0; B = 3.0; C = 2.0 ; D = 1.0; F = 0; )
And for each course has Credit Hours. Usually Graduate courses in Masters program will have 3 Credit Hours.
Lets say at end of the semester, professor assigns grade of B to Course AB, Grade A to Course BC and Grade AF to course 3. GPA is calculated as follows
- Total Grades = Sum of (Grade * Credit Hours)= B*3 + A*3 + A*3 = 3*3+4*3+4*3 =33
- Total Credit Hours = 3+3+3 = 9
- GPA = Total Grades/Total Credit Hours = 23/9 = 3.66
Universities will have some some form of evaluation to convert percentage to GPA and that varies with each University. They have their own GPA calculator.
So, you really can’t convert academic percentage or CPGA to GPA. Best way to to write percentage and Colleges will know what to do with your percentage score.
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[...] Originally Posted by talon Our college has the system of percentages ( mine 79%) how do i convert that to 4 point or 5 point GPA scale ? Thanks in advance. GPA Conversion Article [...]
great. thanks for the help
Hi..
In he University 1 method you have mentioned that 95-100% -4
90-94%-3.9
Then is the next one 85-90 or 85-89?
Please give the sequence
i got a %age of 70% in my degree…(aggregate 65%)
can any1 tell me hw much do i score in d GPA scale???