How to use the correct rate to letter grade converter
A returned exam often shows how many questions you got right long before any grade is posted. This page turns that count into a correct rate and then places it inside the grading curve cutoffs you type in, so you can see which band you land in and how many more questions the next band would take.
The math is correct rate = correct answers ÷ total questions × 100. Your cutoffs are sorted from highest to lowest and the first band whose cutoff the rate reaches becomes your grade; a tie counts as met, so 92.00% meets a 92% cutoff. Questions needed for each band, and the extra questions needed for the next band up, are rounded up so the figure is never short.
The limits matter here. No official conversion table links a correct rate to a grade, and cutoffs move with every administration and every group of test takers. When questions carry different point values, correct rate and score percentage drift apart. This page does not compute scaled scores or percentile ranks and cannot promise the grade you will actually receive; treat the result as a reference that holds only inside the cutoffs you entered.
Frequently Asked Questions
A tie counts as met. Cutoffs are treated as "at or above", so a cutoff of 92% with a correct rate of exactly 92.00% falls into that grade band.
There is no official table that converts a correct rate into a grade. Curve cutoffs change with each exam, each section and each group of test takers, so the calculator only works inside the cutoffs you supply.
Not reliably. When point values differ, the share of questions answered correctly no longer matches the share of points earned. This page works from question counts only and does not weight questions by their point value.