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 Do it yourself:  GPA and CGPA calculation make easy

Hello guys, as examination is at the corner, do you know your stand as a student?  if yes that is cool , otherwise this write up  is for  you so that you can relief yourself of  sleepless night and  stop putting blame on your course adviser and  CITS.  Another area we will touch light is carry over cases whether they  affect your CGPA or not. Here is a step by step approach in calculating GPA and CGPA. You know what, let first consider the key terms that will ensure your understanding.

GRADE POINTS	HONOUR DEGREES
A       (70-100%) – 5	First Class:                         4.50 and above
B        (60-69%) – 4	Second Class Upper:       3.50-4.49
C        (50-59%) – 3	Second Class Lower:        2.50-3.49
D        (45-49%) – 2	Third Class:                        1.50-2.49
E        (40-44%) – 1
F         (0-39%) – 0

Often time, reference will be made to the information in table. 

Cumulative Grade Point Average (CGPA) is an assessment tool used to evaluate your academic performance. In other word, it is a grade that determine your stand in academic that is what you worth in term of academic performance. It vary from the highest which is 5.0 to the lowest 1.50. However, information from grapevine says,   that current minimum cumulative grade point average for university of Lagos(UNILAG) is 1.90.  in addition,  we will like to draw your attention to compulsory courses that require no credit but pass and  they have  no influence on CGPA neither on GPA whether pass or not but  they can prevent you from graduating from the institution. Example of such courses in university Lagos are GST 102, 202, 214, 103, etc.    ok!

Pick up your pen and follow the steps below

1.                  Draw out four columns

2.                  write, the courses you registered in your first semester  in the first column. E.g. EDF 222, EDA 305

3.                  in the second column , opposite these courses write their units like 3units , 2units , 4units etc

4.                 Input  the  grades in the third column,

5.                 In the fourth column,  multiple the units by grade e.g  3x5 (i.e grade a as listed in the table above)

6.                 Sum up the units and grade columns

Your work should look like this

COURSES	TOTAL UNIT	GRADE	TOTAL GRADE POINT
EDF 322	2	5.0(A)	10
EDA 305	3	3.0(C)	9
FED 301	4	3.0(C)	12
ECE 331	2	5.0(A)	10
*CRS 311	3	0.0(C)	0
Total	14		41

7.                 Divide total grade point by total unit to get GPA for the first semester   41/14 = 2.9GPA

8.                 Follow  step 1 to step 7 to calculate the second semester  GPA

9.                 To calculate your CGPA for the first and second semesters 

Semester 2 work looks like this

COURSES	TOTAL UNIT	GRADE	TOTAL GRADE POINT
EDF 334	2	5.0(A)	10
SSE 303	4	4.0(B)	16
ASE 336	4	4.0(B)	16
ECE 324	3	5.0(A)	15
Total	13		57

Second semester GPA is 4.4

Please, don’t make mistake of dividing GPAs by two (2) as erroneously done by many students.  E.g. 2.9 + 3.0 / 2 = 2. 95

10.            At this point,  You will add total grade point of the two semesters then divide them by the total unit of the two semester’s unit’s e.g.

(First Semester Total Grade Point + Second Semester Grade Point) / (First Semester Total Unit + Second Semester) = CGPA                   

 [(41 + 57) / (14+13)] =  74/27 = 2.7 CGPA

In a situation where there is carry over course which is CRS 311. The cumulative grade point average will be calculated thus: 

11.             Calculate GPA for the third semester by following step 1 to step 7.

Remember, you have added the carry over course (CRS 311) to rewrite.

COURSES	TOTAL UNIT	GRADE	TOTAL GRADE POINT
EDA  411	3	3.0(C)	9
SSE 403	4	5.0(A)	20
FED 401	4	4.0(B)	16
ECE 440	4	5.0(A)	20
* CRS 311	3	5.0(A)	15
	18		80

Third semester GPA  is  80/18 = 4.4

12.            To calculate cumulative grade point average for the third semester  follow step 10

13.             Now, to calculate CGPA with the carry over course (CRS 311). – you need to replace the old grade with the new grade before the calculation and also remove the unit and grade in the semester GPA  where the course was carry over.

(First Semester Total Grade Point excluding carry over course} + Second Semester Grade Point  + third semester total grade ) / (First Semester Total Unit excluding carry over + Second Semester) = CGPA 

[ (41-0) + (57) + (80) ]  / [(14-3) + (13) + (18) ] = 178/42 = 4.2

Note: you will follow the same process to calculate other semesters cumulative grade point average. Don’t divide directly please.

Hope you are able to follow through successfully,  if otherwise go back to step 1  then continue to the last steps. Remember is not the number of time you go through the steps that matter but your ability to understand and apply it to calculate your own CGPA or other people CGPA.

It is in our great pleasure to appreciate your time to go through this write up for your own or other people benefit. You are the best!

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references
obafemi awolow university , course syetem unit  available : http://www.oauife.edu.ng/administration/student-affairs/students-handbook/course-unit-system/
public fact (6th august 2013) how to calculate GPA and CGPA available :  http://publicfact.blogspot.com/2013/08/v-behaviorurldefaultvmlo.html