Midterm Grade Calculator

The Semester GPA Calculator turns a list of finished courses with letter grades and credit hours into a single semester GPA on the 4.0 scale. This Midterm Grade Calculator works inside a single course, before the midterm is taken, and tells you the percent score you need on that one exam to reach a target final grade. Use semester GPA at the end of a term to summarize; use midterm grade in the middle of a term to plan your next exam.

There is no standard split. Examples include 40% prior work, 30% midterm, 30% final or 50%, 25%, 25%, but project, lab, and seminar courses can look completely different. Enter the exact weights from your syllabus.

Because midterm exam scores cap at 100%. If the algebra returns a required score above 100, no midterm result is enough to drag your overall grade up to the target. Three fixes: lower the target by one letter grade (an A- instead of an A), ask the instructor about extra credit that lifts your prior-work contribution, or wait until the final exam weight kicks in and use the Final Grade Calculator after the midterm to recompute what the final needs to be.

Enter the B cutoff from your syllabus and read the required midterm score. A result at or below 100% is mathematically reachable under the entered weights, but the calculator cannot judge whether it is realistic for you. A result above 100% is unreachable without extra credit or a changed grading policy.

Convert your raw midterm score to a percentage before reading it back into this calculator. For partial credit, sum the points you actually earned, divide by the total points possible, and multiply by 100. If your midterm is graded out of 150 instead of 100, divide your score by 150 and multiply by 100 to get the percentage. The required midterm score this calculator reports is always a percent of the midterm's total point value, not a raw point count, so any test scale converts cleanly.