When calculating your GPA, does a student include PE grades and homeroom grades? What about, lets say, Landscape and Machine Shop???
And when it says “Number of UC Approved Honors courses (up to 8)” do they mean 8 classes (1 year) or 8 semesters (half the school year)?
Most high schools have a list indicating which courses satisfy each a-g requirement. Generally, PE and homeroom are excluded. Machine shop, probably not but, if the school doesn’t have a list - you can look up your high school here:
https://hs-articulation.ucop.edu/agcourselist#/list/search/institution
For the AP GPA cap, it is 8 semesters.
Here are 2 handy calcuators
https://rogerhub.com/gpa-calculator-uc/
http://www.csumentor.com/planning/high_school/gpa_calculator.asp