<p>How do I get my GPA? I know that A=4 B=3 C=2 D=1 F=0, but hell... I'm an international student and I have like 12 subjects or so... Plus I don't have As or Bs or Cs, but grades from 1 to 5. How does that work?</p>
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<li>What exam board/ curriculum are you under?</li>
<li>“Plus I don’t have As or Bs or Cs, but grades from 1 to 5. How does that work?” what does this mean?</li>
<li>Not having a GPA doesn’t put you in any adverse situation. Adcomms will use your grades marks class rank course load etc to judge you so don’t worry</li>
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<p>First of all, don’t convert your grades. Report them on the scale that they are given.</p>
<p>If your school computes a grade point average, use that.</p>
<p>Otherwise, I suggest you skip that question on the application. If you really want to compute a GPA, there are a few ways of doing that.</p>
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<li>Unweighted. Just average all of the grades you ever got in high school.</li>
<li>Weighted by credit hours. If one of your classes meets 5 hours a week and another meets for 2 hours, the grade from the 5-hour class could be given proportionally more weight.</li>
<li>Weighted by class difficulty. If there are honors versions of the same classes, some schools add grade points to the honors classes to account for the difficulty. (e.g. a B in an honors class would be treated the same as an A in the regular class)</li>
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<p>If you want a GPA on a 4.0 scale for purposes other than college admissions, you could use the [WES</a> grade conversion guide](<a href=“http://www.wes.org/gradeconversionguide/]WES”>Country Resources - WES.org) to translate your grades one at a time and then compute a GPA from the converted grades.</p>