Final Exam Grade Calculator

Final Exam Grade Calculator works out the score you need in the final exam to finish a course with the overall grade you want. It needs three numbers: your grade so far, before the final, as a percentage; how much the final is worth in the overall grade, from the syllabus; and the overall grade you are aiming for. Your current grade counts for the rest of the weight, so with 72% so far and a final worth 40%, the coursework contributes 72 × 0.6 = 43.2 points and the final must bring the other 36.8 — a score of 92%. The answer is rounded up, because a score a fraction below it would fall just short. If the target is already secured even with 0 in the final, it says so; if it would take more than 100%, it says that it cannot be reached with the final alone. A table under the result shows the score needed for the common boundaries from 90% down to 40%, so you can see what each grade would take.

1. Enter your current grade before the final, as a percentage.
2. Enter the final exam’s weight in the overall grade.
3. Enter the overall grade you want.
4. Read the score needed and the table of other targets.

• It assumes the overall grade is a straight weighted average of the coursework and the final. Courses with a minimum mark in the final, dropped lowest scores or curves need their own rules applied.
• If your current grade is not yet a percentage of the coursework done, work that out first: your marks so far over the marks available so far.
• Everything is calculated in your browser. Nothing you type is sent anywhere.

Enter the percentage your course needs for an A (often 90 or 80) as the target. The table shows the common boundaries at once.

Because the target is a minimum. Rounding down could give a score that leaves you a hundredth short.

Then your current grade does not count and the score needed is the target itself.

Yes. Enter that exam’s weight and your grade on everything else so far.