Grade Calculator
Type in your categories, weights, and scores. Watch the bar move as you go. Find out exactly what you need on the final.
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How weighted grades actually work
Most college courses split your grade into categories like homework, midterms, and finals. Each one carries a different weight. Your grade is the sum of each category's score times its weight, divided by the total weight of categories you've actually been graded on.
The “what do I need” math runs the same equation backwards. Given your current scores and a target, it solves for the average you need on whatever's left to land where you want.
Why your Canvas grade and your real grade rarely match
Canvas and Blackboard show you the average of the work you've already been graded on. That's a useful number, but it isn't the full picture. Categories with no submissions yet (the final exam, the project you haven't started) drop out of the calculation entirely, so a 92 in the gradebook can quietly become a B once the rest of the semester counts.
This calculator does the opposite. It tells you what your grade looks like if every ungraded item still has to be earned, and exactly what score you need on the rest to hit a specific letter.
Tips that quietly help
- If your weights don't add up to 100, the warning at the bottom will tell you. That usually means a category is missing from the syllabus, not that the math is wrong.
- Leave the final exam blank to see what you'd need on it. Add a hypothetical score to see where you'd land.
- Want this to update automatically every time a grade posts? That's the rest of GradePath.