How to use the GPA recalculation with retakes calculator
Lifting a GPA before graduation usually means choosing which courses to retake and which to ask to have excluded. This page takes several courses at once, lets you mark each as a retake, an exclusion or unchanged, and recalculates the GPA. Everything not in the list goes in as a credit total and a GPA, and is folded into the overall figure.
A retake swaps the old grade for the new one, and with a cap entered a higher new grade is brought down to the cap. An exclusion removes both the credits and the grade points, so the GPA rises while earned credits fall. Keeping a course leaves the original grade in place. All arithmetic runs on unrounded values and is rounded to two decimals only for display.
Retake caps, how many credits may be excluded and how often a course may be repeated differ by school, so nothing is built in. This page does not decide whether you qualify to petition, and it does not convert letter grades, so enter grades as grade point values.
Frequently asked questions
A retake replaces the earlier grade with the new one for the same course, while exclusion removes the course from both the grade calculation and the credit count. Exclusion lifts the GPA but reduces earned credits, which affects degree progress.
Many schools recognize only up to a set grade for a repeated course, but the cap differs by institution and some have none. With a cap entered, a higher new grade is brought down to the cap; leave it blank to use the grade as entered.
Yes. Mark each course as a retake, an exclusion or unchanged and they are all recalculated together. Everything not in the list goes into the two fields at the top as a credit total and a GPA, and is folded into the overall figure.