Part One - Calculating GPA
How does SF State calculate your Grade Point Average (GPA)?
After you have checked your grades from last semester, you may wonder how SF State calculates your GPA. If you look again at your transcript, it provides three numbers as follows:
| UA (Units Attempted) |
UE (Units Earned) |
GP (Grade Points) |
| 10 | 13 | 30 |
SF State calculates GPA by dividing your total grade points earned (GP) by the units attempted for a letter grade (UA). Note that any course that earning a "Credit" grade (CR) or any remedial course (MATH 60 or 70) never contribute to this calculation.
Grade points are earned according to the following chart:
| A | 4.0 grade points/unit | Typical 3 unit class earns 12.0 grade points |
| A- | 3.7 grade points/unit | Typical 3 unit class earns 11.1 grade points |
| B+ | 3.3 grade points/unit | Typical 3 unit class earns 9.9 grade points |
| B | 3.0 grade points/unit | Typical 3 unit class earns 9.0 grade points |
| B- | 2.7 grade points/unit | Typical 3 unit class earns 8.1 grade points |
| C+ | 2.3 grade points/unit | Typical 3 unit class earns 6.9 grade points |
| C | 2.0 grade points/unit | Typical 3 unit class earns 6.0 grade points |
| C- | 1.7 grade points/unit | Typical 3 unit class earns 5.1 grade points |
| D+ | 1.3 grade points/unit | Typical 3 unit class earns 3.9 grade points |
| D | 1.0 grade point/unit | Typical 3 unit class earns 3.0 grade points |
| D- | 0.7 grade points/unit | Typical 3 unit class earns 2.1 grade points |
| F | 0.0 grade points/unit | Typical 3 unit class earns 0.0 grade points |
Double Check your GPA
- First - add the units of all courses that you took with the intention of receiving a letter grade (A through F)
- Second - add all of the grade points for each class, using the table above
- Divide the second number (grade points) by the first (units attempted for letter grade)
- Compare with your transcript to make sure it matches!
Credit/No Credit grading system
You can choose almost any class to be evaluated on a "credit/no credit" basis. This will remove the course from the above GPA calculation, even if you end up not passing the course. Be careful! Some majors have additional policies regarding major classes being taken for Credit/No Credit (i.e. Business)
