Gradebook and GPA planner — what you need on the final

It assumes the work still to be marked goes the same way as the work already marked. That is a more honest default than assuming full marks, which is what most grade calculators show and which always looks encouraging.

Projected continues your current average. Best possible assumes 100% on everything remaining. The gap between them is how much is still in your hands.

Because assessments are not worth the same. Averaging 95 on a 5% quiz with 60 on a 40% exam gives 77.5 as a simple average and a much lower number once weight is applied. Forgetting weight is the single most common gradebook mistake.

No. Courses, marks and your grade scale stay in your browser using local storage, so they are still there when you come back after the next assignment is returned. Nothing is sent anywhere, and clearing your browser data removes them.

Because it has no grade yet. Counting it as zero would drag down the GPA for a semester that has barely started, which is worse than saying nothing.

The tool warns you and keeps working, because partial syllabuses are common mid-semester. But if the total is wrong the projection will be too, so it is worth checking against the course outline.

That is the one number this tool exists to produce. It works backwards from the grade you are aiming at: it takes the marks already banked, subtracts them from the total the grade requires, and divides what is left across the weight still unmarked. If your final is worth 40% and you are 6 percentage points short of the boundary, you need 15 points of that 40 — which is 37.5% on the paper, not 94% as the raw gap makes it look.

The target is the average you need across all of them, weighted. That is more useful than a per-assignment figure, because the pieces are rarely worth the same and you can trade a weaker quiz against a stronger essay. If you want a specific plan rather than an average, enter a predicted score on the pieces you are confident about and the target recomputes for what remains.

Because the projection assumes the rest of the course goes the way the marked work has gone, and a mark that is good in absolute terms can still be below your running average. A 78 entered when you are averaging 84 pulls the projection down, correctly. Grade calculators that always assume full marks on the remainder never show this, which is exactly why they are reassuring and not useful.

Yes. Each course produces its own letter grade and grade point from the scale you set, and the GPA is the credit-weighted average of the courses that have a grade. Courses with no marks entered are left out rather than counted as zero, so a semester that has barely started does not show a GPA of 0.4.

GPA is the average for the set of courses you have entered; CGPA at your institution is the average across everything you have ever taken. To approximate a CGPA, enter your completed courses with their final grades alongside the current semester. The result is still a planning figure — institutions apply their own rules on resits, capped grades and excluded courses, and none of those are known to this page.

Enough to change your letter. An A commonly starts at 90 in North America and at 80 or even 75 in Malaysian, British and Australian institutions, and some scales carry an A+ worth more than 4.0 while others cap at 4.0. That is why the bands here are editable and why nothing is preset to a national standard — the letter is only as right as the scale you enter, so it is worth two minutes with the course outline.

Only if the scale you enter matches theirs. Some institutions round differently, exclude certain courses, or cap grade points. Treat this as planning, not as a transcript.