Check a grade that looks wrong

1. Do the weights add up to what your syllabus says? Weights that total less than 100% mean some work is still to come; the grade so far only counts what is graded.
2. Is ungraded work blank, not zero? A blank is left out; a zero counts as no credit and pulls the grade down.
3. Does your class count points instead of category weights? Switch to Points: big assignments then count more, as they do in a points gradebook.
4. Did you type a letter instead of a score? A letter counts as the lowest percentage for that letter, so a B+ typed in place of 89% counts as 87% on the common US plus/minus scale: two points low.
5. Does your teacher drop the lowest score or add extra credit? Set it under “Drop scores, extra credit and paste points”.

Open the class grade calculator with these checks in mind.

1. Is the final’s weight its share of the whole course? A final worth 20% goes in as 20, even if it is the only test left.
2. Is your grade so far the grade before the final, not a projected grade that already includes it?
3. Is the final one test inside a test category? Choose that setup under “A different final-exam setup”; the category weight is shared by every test in it.
4. Out of reach means no score up to the highest possible reaches the target under these weights. A curve or extra credit your teacher announces is outside the calculation.

Open the final grade calculator with these checks in mind.

1. Are you using your school’s grade points? A school with A− = 3.67 and one with A− = 3.7 give slightly different GPAs from the same grades.
2. Are the credit hours the GPA hours from your transcript? Pass/fail, withdrawn and incomplete courses often earn credit without counting in the GPA.
3. Is a retaken course counted once or twice? Schools differ; enter the attempts your school counts.
4. High school: does your school add points for Honors, AP or IB, and only above a certain grade? Set those rules in the high school calculator.

Open the GPA calculator with these checks in mind.

1. Is the scale the one in your syllabus? Many classes set their own cutoffs; choose “My class cutoffs” and type them in.
2. Does your class round before giving the letter? On the common US plus/minus scale, 89.5% stays a B+ without rounding and becomes an A− when rounded to the nearest whole percent.
3. A displayed 90% can still be below a 90% cutoff when the unrounded score is 89.6%. The calculators apply the letter to the full value unless you choose rounding.

Open the grading scale calculator with these checks in mind.

1. Are all questions worth the same? If not, add the points earned and possible instead and use the test grade calculator.
2. Did a half-right answer count as half a question? Enter it as 0.5 wrong.
3. Is the question count the number of questions, not the number of points? Set points per question for points off.

Open the easy grader with these checks in mind.

1. Does your report card use the same split? Pick the matching setup or type the weights from your school’s grading policy.
2. Is each quarter grade the final quarter grade from your report card, not a running average from the gradebook?
3. Modules weighted by credits: choose “Modules (credits)” so each module counts for its credits.

Open the semester grade calculator with these checks in mind.