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Texas Tech counts whole letters: A is 4, B 3, C 2, D 1 and F 0. A plus or minus your instructor adds shows on your transcript but not in your GPA, so a B+ counts as a B. A retaken D or F stops counting once you earn a C or better, and an F taken pass/fail counts, though a P doesn’t.
Texas Tech’s points: A 4.00, B 3.00, C 2.00, D 1.00 and so on.
The plus/minus cutoffs Wikipedia lists for US colleges: A+ from 97%, A 93, A- 90, B+ 87, B 83, B- 80 and so on down to D- at 60. It is not universal, so use your syllabus's cutoffs when they differ.Source: Wikipedia, “Academic grading in the United States”.
Your class cutoffs
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Each letter starts at its lowest percentage and runs up to the next letter.
Rounding and decimal places
Follow your syllabus. A displayed percentage can round up while the unrounded score stays below a cutoff.
Only changes how results are shown. Extra places appear when rounding would push a score over a letter cutoff.
A letter typed as a score counts as the lowest percentage for that letter on this scale. Use the original percentage when you have it.
Only scales that publish GPA points can convert a percentage. Check that your school uses these same points.
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Include your earlier GPA
Quality points are the more exact input when the displayed GPA has already been rounded. Do not include these same credits again in the course rows.
Raise my GPA: what would it take to reach a target?
These are future credits beyond the courses and earlier record entered above.
Pass/fail or a retake: what would change?
Whether a pass/fail course leaves the GPA and whether a retake replaces the old grade are your school’s rules; the table below shows Texas Tech’s.
One grade higher: which course moves your GPA most?
Each line raises one course by one grade on the grade points above and leaves the others as entered, so a course that carries more credit moves the GPA more. A course you haven’t finished can be marked “Planned” in its ⋯ menu: the GPA so far then leaves it out, and the projection counts it at the grade you chose. A grade already on your transcript changes only under your school’s retake or grade-change rules.
Compare with a GPA line (dean's list, scholarship, good standing)Course groups and equal weights
Set a course's group or term, or mark it planned, in its ⋯ menu. Groups are just your labels: they don’t apply AMCAS or other application-service GPA rules.
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Copy the courses from your unofficial transcript, degree audit or a spreadsheet and paste them here, one course per line with its grade and credits. Term headings such as “Fall 2025” keep the courses in their terms. Your grades stay in this browser.
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Texas Tech’s rules checked in its 2026–2027 Undergraduate and Graduate Catalog. Sources are at the bottom of the page.
Grade points at Texas Tech
Texas Tech multiplies each course’s grade points by its credit hours, adds them up and divides by the hours that count. Enter your courses above with these points already set.
Texas Tech University letter grades and grade points
What W, pass/fail, incomplete, retakes and transfer credit do at Texas Tech
A course left out of the GPA adds no points and no hours. In the calculator, choose its code or “Not counted”; a code that counts as zero lowers the GPA like a failing grade.
How Texas Tech counts each code
Code
What it means
In the Texas Tech GPA
A plus or minus (A−, B+ …)
Your instructor may add a plus or minus to the letter
Shown on your transcript but not used in your GPA: a B+ counts as a B, 3 points, and an A− as an A, 4. Choose the plain letter above. Rule
P or F
Pass or fail, for up to 13 elective hours
A P stays out of your GPA, but an F taken pass/fail counts as an F, 0 points. Pass/fail can’t count toward the core curriculum or communication literacy, and once you choose it you can’t switch back to a letter grade. Rule
DG
A course you dropped by the last drop date
Left out of your GPA. You have six drops in all, counting drops at any Texas public college or university. Rule
W
Complete withdrawal from the university for the term
Recorded on each of that term’s classes, and every registered hour is dropped, so the term adds nothing to your GPA. It doesn’t use up one of your six drops. Rule
I
Incomplete: satisfactory work left unfinished for reasons beyond your control
Left out of your GPA until you finish. It turns into an F after one calendar year if the conditions for finishing aren’t met. Rule
PR
In progress: the course’s work runs beyond the term
Left out of your GPA; the grade appears for the term you finish the course. Rule
Only a D or F can be replaced. Retake the course at Texas Tech and the Registrar replaces the grade at the end of the term: your GPA counts only your latest attempt’s D or F until you earn a C or better, and then that grade instead. A retaken D that ends in an F counts as the F. Attempts are unlimited, but after the third you pay the nonresident tuition rate for that course. The old grade stays on your transcript marked as replaced, and once you graduate a course can’t be replaced. Graduation honors use a pure GPA that keeps every grade, replaced or not. Rule
Transfer credit
Grades from another college
Only courses taken and grades received at Texas Tech count in your GPA, so grades from another college stay out. If you take courses elsewhere during a suspension, they need a 2.0 GPA of their own before you can be readmitted. Rule
Texas Tech GPA lines
These are Texas Tech’s published undergraduate lines, each with the other conditions its catalog sets. Your college or program may set its own, higher lines.
Published GPA lines at Texas Tech
GPA line
What it means
Also required
Below 2.0 cumulative
Academic Warning
Good standing is a cumulative Texas Tech GPA of 2.0 or above. On Warning you can take at most 16 hours without your associate dean’s approval. Full rule
Below 2.0 the next term, for both the term and the cumulative GPA
Academic Probation
A term GPA above 2.0 with the cumulative still below keeps you on Warning instead. Full rule
Below 2.0 the term after probation, for both the term and the cumulative GPA
Academic Suspension, for one full term (fall, spring or summer)
A term GPA above 2.0 with the cumulative still below puts you back on Warning instead. Your academic dean decides on readmission. Back from a suspension, a term and cumulative GPA both below 2.0 mean dismissal for a calendar year, and back from a dismissal, permanent dismissal; a term above 2.0 with the cumulative still below puts you on Probation instead. Full rule
2.0 cumulative, repeated courses included
The least you need to graduate
It covers every course you attempted in your degree program. Full rule
3.5 or higher for a semester, on at least 12 undergraduate hours
Dean’s Honor List of your college
A 4.0 semester makes you eligible for the President’s Honor List. Both are for full-time students. Full rule
3.5, 3.7 or 3.9 pure GPA at graduation
Cum laude, magna cum laude or summa cum laude
The pure GPA counts every grade you earned at Texas Tech, replaced grades and pass/fail credit included, and you need at least 48 semester hours there. Full rule
To see how far you are from one of them, enter it under “Compare with a GPA line” in the calculator, or as your target in the target GPA planner.
A worked example
Only a D or F can be replaced: a 3-hour D retaken for a B leaves just the B in your GPA. Beside a 3-hour A, that is (3 × 3 + 4 × 3) ÷ 6 = 3.50, where counting both attempts would have given (1 × 3 + 3 × 3 + 4 × 3) ÷ 9 = 2.67. Your pure GPA for graduation honors still counts the D.
The calculator gives an estimate from the grades you enter. Your official GPA is the one on your Texas Tech academic record.
For any other college, the college GPA calculator starts on the common plus/minus 4.0 points and takes your school’s own. Cumulative GPA combines terms you already have, and the GPA guide answers what a GPA means.
