<p>Hey guys.</p>
<p>I just wanted to let you know about this program that lets you calculate your GPA without having to retype all your courses every time.
Here is the link: CourseM</a> v1.00</p>
<p>Hope it helps.</p>
<p>ya… I made a spread-sheet with all my classes and grades and its set up to tell me my new GPA every-time I put a new course in. Excel is fun =D</p>
<p>zomg he’s loggin my keyz!</p>
<p>yeah it’s pretty hard to add a few numbers and divide -_-</p>
<p>take old GPA
multiply by the number of units you had before</p>
<p>add in new courses to that score, divide by new number of units.</p>
<p>or… LOOK AT YOUR TRANSCRIPT!</p>
<p>Hmm, yeah I think Excel is a pretty good idea, but I still like this program better.
I don’t know about you guys, but I have gone to a few different universities (some semester; other quarter) and have taken a lot of courses that don’t transfer as credit for UCs and CSUs (I am in community college). I just like how this program automatically calculates my UC and CSU GPA so I don’t need to worry about converting units and all that.</p>
<p>… LOL. you don’t need to convert units to find out your GPA. if you have an A, you give yourself a 4, if you have a B, give yourself a 3. pretty straightforward. why are you in college if you can’t do straight addition and divide?</p>
<p>well… that’s not entirely true Fenris. Because a 5 unit class is weighted more than a 2 unit class… So technically you have to do some multiplication as well. </p>
<p>And you might need to convert between semester and quarter units, if you’ve done both, so that you can get the grades weighted properly. </p>
<p>In the light of these points I find your ridicule (why are you in college…) funny.</p>
<p>um… classes don’t “weigh” more than others. this isn’t high school. as for a semester/quarter conversion, it’s just semester x 1.5 or quarter x 2/3</p>
<p>Fenris is confused.</p>
<p>Fenris, absurdmike is not talking about “weight” as in what high school students deal with when they get extra points for taking honors and/or AP courses. The weight here meant is the different max possible grade points based on the number of units.</p>
<p>Ex: A 5-unit course you get an A in is worth 20 grade points (5<em>4=20). But a 2-unit course you get an A in is only worth 8 grade points (2</em>4=8). Thus a 5-unit class has a heavier weight on your GPA than a 2-unit class.</p>
<p>A GPA is not simply adding up the worth of each grade (A=4, B=3, C=2, D=1, F=0) and then dividing it by the number of classes. You have to add up your grade points and divide that number by how many units you attempted. That is how you determine your GPA. Or, as suggested, just looking it up on your transcript ;)</p>
<p>Either way, there’s absolutely no reason to be a pompous d!ck about it. Bokuwa was just trying to help other people out.</p>
<p>yes i know the 4x5 3x5 principle. i’m not confused, i just don’t think “weight” was the appropriate word to use. it’s not weighted more than any other class.</p>
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<p>A higher unit class has far greater impact (or weight) on a GPA than a lower unit class. Just because you do not agree with the terminology does not mean it is incorrect. Or are you saying that a 5-unit class and a 2-unit class have the exact same impact upon a grade?</p>
<p>Let’s use that logic, shall we? Let’s assume four classes are taken. Two are worth 5-units, one is worth 3-units, and one is worth 2-units. In one of the 5-unit classes and the 2-unit class, you receive an A. In the 3-unit class, you receive a B. And in the remaining 5-unit class, you receive a D (just not your subject, I guess).</p>
<p>Based on your statement to just assign a number based on the grade received, the GPA calculation would look like this:</p>
<p>Class #1 - 5-units: A = 4
Class #2 - 5-units: D = 1
Class #3 - 3-units: B = 3
Class #4 - 2-units: A = 4</p>
<p>4 + 1 + 3 + 4 = 12
12/4 = 3.0</p>
<p>Seems dandy, doesn’t it? But when you calculate correctly, you get this:</p>
<p>Class #1 - 5-units: A = 4<em>5 = 20
Class #2 - 5-units: D = 1</em>5 = 5
Class #3 - 3-units: B = 3<em>3 = 9
Class #4 - 2-units: A = 4</em>2 = 8</p>
<p>20 + 5 + 9 + 8 = 42 grade points
42/15 = 2.8</p>
<p>Hrm… Last I checked, a 2.8 GPA is lower than a 3.0 GPA. So by calculating in the weight of each class (the impact the number of units have), you come up with a completely different GPA than just “assigning a number based on the grade received.” I’m sorry, but the math doesn’t lie. It is not as straightforward as you worded in your earlier post. While it is easy, yes, to calculate your GPA, it is not as simple as assigning a number without going through the process of first calculating your grade points and then adding and then dividing by the number of units taken.</p>
<p>In high school, “weight” may have meant you received 5 points for an A grade. But in college, it means how big of an impact that class will have on your GPA. Its “weight” or its “importance” in factoring what you have earned. I am sorry if you disagree.</p>
<p>i just told you i understood the concept of the (A-D) 4/3/2/1/ x (units) 5/4/3</p>
<p>i’m saying i don’t agree with “weight” seeing as how i apply “weight” only to AP classes. I realize you come up with a different GPA with a straight 4/3/2/1 / # of classes vs units x grade/units. you pretty much just wasted your time there. misunderstanding in terminology.</p>
<p>Well… I hope I did not offend anyone by posting.</p>
<p>Going along with the possible complications of calculation (depending on how many colleges you went to), I wanted to let you guys know about this program.</p>