Guides
How grading systems actually work, written for the week before finals rather than for a textbook.
How to Calculate Your Final Grade
A step-by-step walkthrough of both grading systems — weighted categories and total points — with the formulas, a worked example, and the mistakes that make students calculate the wrong number.
6 min read
How Weighted Grades Work
Why a perfect score on homework barely moves your grade, how category weights actually distribute points, and how to tell which assignment is worth your time tonight.
6 min read
What Grade Do I Need on My Final?
The formula, how much your final can actually move your grade, what to do when the number comes back over 100, and how to triage three finals in one week.
7 min read
How Much Will My Final Affect My Grade?
The maximum your final can move your course grade is exactly its weight — and the exchange rate per exam point follows from that. The table, the formula, and when a boundary is already gone.
6 min read
How to Raise Your GPA
Why a perfect semester barely moves a junior’s GPA, which five levers actually return anything, and how to tell whether your target is reachable before you build a plan around it.
8 min read
Calculators
- Final Grade CalculatorWhat you need on the final to finish with the grade you want.
- Weighted Grade CalculatorTurn homework, quizzes, and exam categories into one course grade.
- Test Grade CalculatorQuestions right out of questions asked — and how many you can miss.
- Points-Based Grade CalculatorFor classes graded out of raw points instead of percentages.
- GPA CalculatorCredit-weighted GPA on the standard 4.0 scale.
- Semester Grade CalculatorCombine quarter or term grades with a final exam into a semester grade.