How to use the combined criterion and curved grade calculator
A transcript that mixes courses graded against fixed cutoffs with courses graded on a curve is hard to read as one number. One set arrives as a percentage that becomes a letter, the other arrives as a grade already assigned by where you placed in the class, and averaging them directly is not possible. Enter your cutoffs and the grade points behind each letter, and this page converts the criterion-graded scores, then credit-weights them together with the curved courses into one combined figure.
The math is a weighted mean: grade points times credits, added up and divided by total credits. Criterion-graded scores are matched against your cutoffs sorted from highest down, and the first band a score reaches supplies the letter and its grade points. Ties go to the higher band, so exactly 90 meets a 90 cutoff. The criterion-only and curve-only averages are reported separately, which shows which group is pulling the combined figure, and the table lists the letter and the grade points applied to every course.
A few limits. The cutoffs, the grade points per letter and the scale maximum are all values you supply, and they differ by school and by year. There is no official table that says what a criterion-graded letter is worth on a curved scale, so those grade points have to come from your own policy. This page does not decide where you placed in a class; it takes the grade already assigned and adds it in, and no particular admissions formula is applied.
Frequently Asked Questions
The score a letter starts at, and the grade points that letter is worth, differ from school to school. Nothing is built in here, so copy the figures from your own grading policy and the page calculates inside them.
The higher one. Cutoffs are read as "at or above", so a score of exactly 90 against a 90 cutoff falls into that band.
Yes. When one of the two lists is empty, that listโs own average reads that it has no courses, and the combined figure is calculated from the courses you did enter.