About

What this site is for

The name is a GPA calculator, but the calculator is the front door, not the point. A student’s average is the symptom, and the reason it is not moving is almost never arithmetic. There are a few causes that come up over and over, and none of them is a calculation problem.

• Academic. The method does not work, the notes are not usable, the exam format is unfamiliar, the reading is faster than the student can process it. This is the category most existing tools pretend does not exist, because it is the hardest to turn into a calculator.
• Financial. The hours are not there. Two jobs, commuting, rent, fees. A student who cannot afford to study more cannot study more, and no study technique fixes that.
• Emotional. Stress, avoidance, burnout, the gap between what was meant and what got done. I have been this student and the tools here come from noticing it, not from research.
• Practical. The course was dropped, the deadline moved, the planner was abandoned on Wednesday, the co-op term ate the study week. Administrative friction, which is real and fixable.

That list is not the whole picture, and I have stopped pretending it is. A student’s life has parts that have nothing to do with any of those four, and the parts interfere whether or not you would call them a cause. Sleep that is not enough. A shared house where nobody agrees on the cleaning. A commute that eats the evening. Money that runs out in the last fortnight of a term. Sick days. A family that needs something on a Thursday. Time zones that do not match your deadline. Passwords that get breached, a password manager, a phishing attempt, a visa appointment, a doctor’s note for an extension.

None of those is a GPA problem on paper, and every one of them can be the actual reason a grade is where it is. So the site is organised by how students actually live rather than by subject. Time — how long you have and when it is due in your zone. Study and planning — the planners, the countdowns, the term-shaped view of a week. Writing and citations, which is where marks quietly get lost. And the science tools from my own coursework.

I had built pages for the rest of it too. Money and what a term costs, health and sleep, the shared-house paperwork, career and co-op hours, security and privacy. They were real tools and I could have left them up. I took them down instead, because a site called Student GPA Calculator that hands you a mortgage calculator and a chore chart is not doing you a favour. It buries the grade tools, and it makes the whole thing read as a pile of unrelated things instead of a place built around one problem. So they are gone, and I have taken the links to them out rather than leave them pointing at nothing.

The aim is thousands of tools across all of it, every one of them something a student actually needs, and every one of them leading back to the same place: find whatever is quietly costing you the grade, fix that, and the average moves on its own. The GPA calculator is how you check whether any of it worked.

That is also why there are hundreds of tools here and not forty. None of them is the site. Each one is a small honest answer to one narrow question, and the value is in the fact that they connect — a exam pacing tool is only useful once you have a revision plan from the revision planner, which is only useful once you have a term-shaped view of your week from the 168-hour planner, which is only useful if you know your study hours per credit are realistic.

If you came here for one number, the calculator is at the top. If your number has been stuck for a while, the reason is somewhere else on this site, and that is the more interesting problem.

Who is behind it

I’m Subash. I’m from Nepal. I came to Canada in 2023 to do my higher studies, and I’m now in my third year of a Biology major at Algoma University. Being an international student turned out to be the most useful thing about me for this site.

My coursework is where the science tools come from. Genetics, microbiology, ecology, population biology — those are not abstract topics to me, they are the classes I sat through last semester. When I built the Punnett square calculator, the restriction enzyme tool and the Hardy-Weinberg chi-square test, I was building for the problem sets I had already done by hand. The HSC GPA calculator comes from a system I lived through — the Bangladesh 5.0 scale with its 4th subject bonus rule is not something I looked up, it is what my friends’ marksheets actually showed.

I came for two reasons, both practical. Better opportunities. And an education environment that ran the way it said it would — the requirements were clear, the credits added up the way you expected, and you could actually finish what you started. I did not expect that second one to matter as much as it did, but it did, and it is a large part of why this site exists.

Why I built it

I don’t remember deciding to make this. What I remember is doing it every day without calling it a project.

Every evening I’d look at how my own day went. What I actually finished. What I meant to finish and didn’t. What I genuinely didn’t have time for, versus what I just told myself I didn’t have time for. Then I’d try to fix the one thing that was quietly costing me the most — usually a subject I was avoiding, or a study plan I’d invented on Monday and abandoned by Wednesday.

Here’s the part that made it into a site. When I asked other students the same questions, I kept hearing the same answers back. The generic tools were not wrong. They were just built for a case that wasn’t theirs. A calculator that wants a percentage when you have a CGPA. A formula that assumes everyone is on a 4.0 scale when your entire country runs on ten points. An explanation that skips the part you actually got stuck on and starts again from the beginning.

I’d get an answer, and the answer wouldn’t fit. So I’d write the one that would. Then someone else would send a message saying it helped. That was the whole loop, for a long time.

I don’t have a dramatic origin story. No one asked me to build this. I just kept hitting the same gap and eventually stopped pretending someone else was going to fill it.

Why it’s built for everywhere

Here’s what I didn’t expect. The site got used by students I will never meet, in places I have never been.

Some of that is because of where I started. Nepal has its own grading system, the NEB four-point scale, and it is not a translation of the Canadian one. When I arrived I had to learn a second system, from scratch, while also learning to write lab reports in a language that was not my first. My friends from back home were doing exactly the same thing at the same time.

So I learned something that turns out to be the whole idea behind this site. A “good GPA” is not one number. It is a number on a scale, and the scale is local. The same 3.2 means something different in Nepal, in Ontario, and in India, and anyone who tells you otherwise has not had to convert their own transcript at two in the morning.

That is not a Canada problem and it is not a Nepal problem. It is a student problem that just has a different answer depending on where you are sitting. So I stopped building for one place. If you are reading this in Toronto, or in Kathmandu, or in Mumbai, or in Manchester, the same questions apply. What counts as a passing grade. How your credits weight. Whether the number on your transcript is the number an employer or an admissions office will recognise.

The Canadian provinces each got their own page, because Ontario and Alberta genuinely do not treat an 80 the same way. Nepal has a page because it is the scale I know from the inside — the Nepal GPA calculator uses the NEB scale where an A+ is any mark from 90 to 100, which is not how the Canadian system reads it. India got CGPA and SGPA, because “divide by ten and multiply by four” is wrong often enough to matter.

It helped my friends first

I want to be straight about the scale of this. It is not a business and it is not famous. It started because the people next to me needed it, and it has been useful to students in more countries than I can count. If it helped you, good. That is genuinely the whole thing.

What is actually on here

More than I expected, honestly. It started as one calculator and it kept growing because I kept needing something that wasn’t there.

• GPA calculators — the main one, with seventeen grading scales including weighted, Canadian, Indian, Nepalese, UK, Australian and ECTS
• Course and grade tools — weighted grades, what you need on the final, assignment and quiz weighting, attendance, class rank, curves, pass/fail, credit hours
• Study planners — daily, weekly and monthly, plus a printable version you can fill in without a screen
• Quiz and study tools — turn your own notes into practice questions, or into flashcards and a glossary
• Citation generator — APA, and it fills in most of the fields for you
• Guides — plain-language explanations of how grading actually works, no formulas assumed

Everything runs in your browser. No account, no sign-up, and your grades are never sent anywhere. If you close the tab, nothing was stored on a server, because there was never a server holding it.

How I decide what to add

Same way I started. I hit a wall, I cannot find an answer that fits, I build the thing. Every grading scale on this site got checked against what institutions actually publish before I added it, not what seemed reasonable.

And when a formula is genuinely contested — which CGPA to percentage rule your university uses, whether WES evaluates your transcript by course or by average — I show you the disagreement instead of picking one and hoping. The CGPA to percentage calculator is the clearest example. Five published rules, all of them real, and the gap between them is wide enough to change an application.

Where I actually check

That last claim is worth being specific about, because “trust me” is worth nothing on a page like this. For the European scales I work from the official ECTS Users’ Guide 2015, adopted by the Ministers for Higher Education of the European Higher Education Area at the 2015 Yerevan conference. The 60-credit year, the 25–30 hours per credit, and the 10 / 25 / 30 / 25 / 10 split behind the A–E letters all come from there, not from me. The ECTS calculator page links it directly.

For a sense of what a good institutional source looks like, the University of Bologna publishes its ECTS distribution tables by degree programme, updated every July, which is precisely what the Guide asks universities to do. Most do not. When yours does, use it instead of mine.

For everything else the rule is the same and it is not complicated: your own registrar’s published scale beats this site. If your university publishes a grade conversion table, that is the document to check against, and if this site disagrees with it, your university is right and I have a bug. The pages that I could not verify against a primary source say so on the page rather than guessing, which is why the CGPA page names SPPU and BPUT as unverified instead of inventing formulas for them.

What I will always get wrong

Every number here is an estimate. Your official GPA, your official percentage, your official transcript — that comes from your institution, and it will always beat anything I calculate. Check anything that matters before you submit it.

Some of my formulas will also be wrong for your school, because grading systems are not standardised and institutions change. If you find one that is, tell me and I will fix it. That is the whole point of having a contact page.

The honest part

This site is independent. It is not affiliated with any university or with Algoma. It earns a small commission from Amazon on some product links, which is what keeps the calculators free — and those links are marked as affiliate links, not slipped in. The tools themselves are not behind anything. No paywall, no email gate, no “enter your GPA to see the result”.

If something here helped you, or if something was confusing or wrong, I would like to know. Get in touch.