How are GPA's scored

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<p>Hi there am realy confused on how gpa's are calculated, what i mena by that are they scored by Trimester(a semester with 3 terms) or by your avergae gpa per uyear. </p>

<p>Example:</p>

<p>if you got 3.5gpa on your first trimester and then you get 2.4 on your second trimester, will you just add the (3.5+2.4) and then divide by 2 so your new gpa will be 2.95. and then you score 3.8 on your 3rd timester so it will (3.8+2.9)/2= 3.3. its the smae thing with semesters or quarters add and divide. </p>

<p>or is a yearly thing, yoour freshman year you 3.5 and then sophomore you get 2.4. all you do here is add and divide, but you only do this annualy so not trimester. </p>

<p>There is a big difference the trimester or semster/quartely gives you 7+ chances to improve your gpa while the annual gpa system only allows you 4 times.</p>

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<p>The example you provided does not calculate the GPA correctly. They way you did it gave the 3rd trimester 50% of the final GPA while the other two trimesters only got 25%. I believe to calculate the full year GPA, you dd the grade from every trimester and divide by 3. </p>

<p>And I don’t really understand your question, but I think the answer you are looking for is that colleges look at cumulative GPA’s so the average of all the years.</p>

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<p>They see the transcript. They’ll see the 2.4. But, of course, also that you snapped back in 3rd trimester.</p>