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Enter your current cumulative GPA and credits, a target cumulative GPA, and how many credits you're taking this term. It tells you the exact GPA you need this semester to reach that target - and whether it's realistically possible.
Updates live as you typeEnter your numbers to see the GPA you need.
Once you know the GPA you need, Encodr is how you hold onto the material well enough to actually earn it - spaced review instead of a last-minute cram.
Get started freeYour cumulative GPA is a credit-weighted average across every credit you've ever taken, so
reaching a new target means solving for the semester GPA that, combined with your existing credits
and GPA, averages out to the target across your new, larger total credit count:
needed semester GPA = (target × (credits so far + credits this semester) −
current GPA × credits so far) ÷ credits this semester. A small number of new
credits moves a large existing credit base only a little, which is why the GPA needed to make a real
move late in a degree is often higher than students expect - and why a target that needs above a 4.0
isn't achievable this semester regardless of grades, since a 4.0 (or higher on a plus scale) is the
ceiling most schools allow.
Your cumulative GPA and this semester's GPA are two different averages - the math for turning a goal into a number.
A quick reference for converting between letter grades, percentages, and 4.0-scale GPA points, since the exact cutoffs vary more than people assume.
Medical schools don't average your GPA and MCAT into one number - they read them as two different signals.
Enter your exam date, hours needed, and difficulty to see how much less time targeted review actually takes.
Open tool →See the Ebbinghaus forgetting curve for cramming vs. spaced review, and where each review session resets your retention.
Open tool →Enter a course, its credit hours, and how memorization-heavy it is to get a recommended daily and weekly study load.
Open tool →Enter your current grade, the final's weight, and your target grade to see the exact score you need on the final.
Open tool →Calculate your unweighted and weighted GPA (honors +0.5, AP/IB +1.0) side by side - not just pre-med, works for any transcript.
Open tool →Enter total questions and the passing percentage to see exactly how many you can miss and still pass.
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