GPA Calculator

Understanding your GPA and its effects on your progression is an important part of being a university student!

Your GPA is used to determine whether or not you are meeting the progression requirements of your program. Before using the GPA calculator, you must review your program's progression requirements in the academic calendar to understand what grades you must achieve to progress to the next year of your program and graduation.

The GPA calculator is for personal and informational purposes only. The calculations are unofficial. Your official GPA and academic record is available on LORIS. To check your final grades prior to them going official (e.g. mid-January for fall term, mid-June for winter term), please review your Unofficial Record of Coursework under Student Services -> Student Records.

Laurier's Grade Scale

Did you know that Laurier uses a 12-point grade scale? The table below outlines how your letter grades convert to grade points. Cross reference your Unofficial Record of Coursework with this table to determine the grade points that you should use in the GPA calculator.

Calculating Your GPA

Once you've confirmed your grade points, you're ready to use the GPA calculator below!

Calculating Your Cumulative GPA

1. Start from your existing GPA, which is available on LORIS.
2. Enter the number of credits you have attempted to date (excluding WD and CR grade credits but including both earned credits and failed credits) and your cumulative GPA.
3. Enter current and anticipated courses and actual or anticipated grades. Use one line for each. You must include both failed and successful course attempts. Note: If you have failed a course and repeated it or are repeating it, use only the grade achieved in the second attempt in your calculation; do not include both the first attempt and the second attempt grades in your calculation. If you are registered in a general degree program and have exceeded 2.0 credits of repeated courses, this rule does not apply.

Calculating GPA Improvement if Retaking a Failed Course

If you wish to determine how much of an improvement you will see if you repeat a course that you have failed:

• Complete the GPA calculation including the grade of F.
• Do the calculation a second time, replacing the original grade of F with the grade you are working toward in your second attempt of the course. Hit "calculate" again.

Failed Courses

A grade of DR, XF or F is a failed course with a ‘zero’ GPA value.

When an X appears beside a final passing grade, the final examination was not written and the grade is based upon term work. Enter XF or the passing grade (e.g., for XD enter “D”) as appropriate.

If the course was dropped after academic deadline, the course is failed unless you have successfully petitioned for an exception.