GPA calculator Pakistan
This calculator works out a single semester's grade point average on the 4.00 scale used across Pakistani universities. It multiplies each course's grade point by its credit hours to get quality points, adds them up, and divides by total attempted credit hours. Non-credit courses are excluded and failing grades still consume credit hours. Grading bands vary by university, so check yours.
| Calculator | Semester GPA |
|---|---|
| Grading scale | Standard 4.00 — maximum 4.00 |
| Formula | Total quality points ÷ total attempted credit hours |
| Primary output | Semester GPA |
| Last verified | 2026-07-22 |
Recommended — copy the grade points straight from your result card for an exact result.
Semester GPA
0.00
- Quality points
- 0
- Credit hours attempted
- 9
- Credit hours earned
- 0
Failing grades still count toward attempted credit hours at Standard 4.00, which lowers the GPA even though no credit is earned.
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How this calculation works
Every course contributes quality points, which are its grade point multiplied by its credit hours. Your GPA is the total quality points divided by the total credit hours you attempted. That weighting is why a 4-credit course moves your average roughly twice as much as a 2-credit one, and why a GPA is never a plain average of grade points.
- Non-credit and audit courses are excluded from both the top and bottom of the fraction.
- Failing grades still count toward attempted credit hours, so they lower the average even though they earn no credit.
Note on the grading scale. No single grading scale is binding across Pakistani universities. Departments within one university can also differ. Always check your own transcript or examination rules.
Standard 4.00 grading scale used here
| Grade | Percentage | Grade point |
|---|---|---|
| A | 85–100% | 4.00 |
| A- | 80–85% | 3.67 |
| B+ | 75–80% | 3.33 |
| B | 71–75% | 3.00 |
| B- | 68–71% | 2.67 |
| C+ | 64–68% | 2.33 |
| C | 61–64% | 2.00 |
| C- | 58–61% | 1.67 |
| D+ | 54–58% | 1.30 |
| D | 50–54% | 1.00 |
| F | 0–50% | 0.00 |
Minimum passing grade on this scale: D (1.00 grade points).
Formula
Quality points = grade point × credit hours
GPA = Σ quality points ÷ Σ attempted credit hours
Worked example
Three courses: a 3-credit course graded 3.70, a 4-credit course graded 3.00 and a 2-credit course graded 4.00.
- 3 × 3.70 = 11.10 quality points
- 4 × 3.00 = 12.00 quality points
- 2 × 4.00 = 8.00 quality points
- Total: 31.10 quality points over 9 credit hours
- GPA = 31.10 ÷ 9 = 3.46
Why your actual result may differ
Universities differ on percentage bands, on whether grading is absolute or relative to class performance, on how repeats are treated, and on which courses count toward a degree. Departments within one university can differ too. Your official transcript is always the authority.
Common mistakes
- Taking a plain average of grade points instead of weighting by credit hours.
- Leaving a failed course out of the calculation — it still counts as attempted credit hours.
- Assuming this page's default grading bands match your own university's.
- Entering a course's total marks in the credit-hours field — credit hours are usually 1 to 4, not 100.
Key terms
- GPA
- Grade Point Average — total quality points divided by total attempted credit hours for a single semester, on a scale that is usually 4.00.
- CGPA
- Cumulative Grade Point Average — the same calculation as GPA but across every completed semester, weighted by credit hours.
- Quality points
- A course's grade point multiplied by its credit hours. Summed across courses and divided by total credit hours, quality points produce the GPA.
- Credit hour
- A unit of a course's weight, usually reflecting one hour of lectures per week for a semester. Higher-credit courses affect the GPA more.