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GPA and Percentage Converter
Compare a US 4.0 GPA, a Pakistani percentage, an HEC CGPA, GCSE 9–1, A*–G and IB 1–7, with the band table behind every figure and a dash where none exists.
The short answer
This converter computes a weighted GPA from subject rows as the sum of grade point times credits divided by total credits, and shows the band table behind every cross-scale figure. Where no publisher has stated an equivalence — GPA to percentage, GCSE to GPA — it prints a dash and the reason instead.
One figure: a cumulative GPA, an overall percentage, or a single subject grade, depending on the scale above.
This is an unofficial estimate. No awarding body, university or education ministry publishes a conversion between these scales, and every figure below is only as good as the band table it came from. Send your transcript, not this page.
Your value
78
Pakistan matric or FSc percentage
On the board grade scheme that is a A, the band running from 70–79 per cent.
The same result on every other scale
| Scale | Value | Basis |
|---|---|---|
| United States 4.0 GPA (unweighted)Converted through the ten-point band most US schools apply to a percentage. That is a school convention rather than a standard, and Pakistani boards mark far more severely, so 72 per cent in FSc is not the same performance as 72 per cent on a US transcript. | C (2.0) | Convention |
| United States weighted GPA (honours and AP)No awarding body or ministry publishes a mapping between these two scales, so none is shown. | — | Not published |
| Pakistan HEC 4.0 CGPAPakistani universities set their own letter bands under HEC policy, and they differ from one campus to the next. Read the grading key printed on your own transcript rather than a table copied from elsewhere. | — | Not published |
| GCSE 9–1No awarding body or ministry publishes a mapping between these two scales, so none is shown. | — | Not published |
| Cambridge A*–GNo awarding body or ministry publishes a mapping between these two scales, so none is shown. | — | Not published |
| IB Diploma 1–7The IB publishes subject grades from 1 to 7 and a diploma total out of 45, with 24 needed to pass. It publishes no GPA or percentage equivalent, and universities read the raw points. | — | Not published |
The band tables these answers came from
| Letter | Grade point |
|---|---|
| A+ | 4.0 |
| A | 4.0 |
| A− | 3.7 |
| B+ | 3.3 |
| B | 3.0 |
| B− | 2.7 |
| C+ | 2.3 |
| C | 2.0 |
| C− | 1.7 |
| D+ | 1.3 |
| D | 1.0 |
| D− | 0.7 |
| F | 0.0 |
| Percentage | Letter |
|---|---|
| 90–100 | A |
| 80–89 | B |
| 70–79 | C |
| 60–69 | D |
| 0–59 | F |
There is no national US grading standard. Schools and districts set their own bands, and plenty use 93 rather than 90 as the floor for an A.
| Percentage | Grade |
|---|---|
| 80–100 | A1 |
| 70–79 | A |
| 60–69 | B |
| 50–59 | C |
| 40–49 | D |
| 33–39 | E |
| 0–32 | F |
A pass is 33 per cent. Several boards have revised their scheme in recent years, so check the key printed on your own marksheet before relying on this.
| GCSE 9–1 | A*–G |
|---|---|
| 9 | > A* |
| 7 | A |
| 4 | C |
| 1 | G |
This tool deliberately does not print an HEC percentage-to-CGPA table. Pakistani universities set letter bands under HEC policy and apply them differently, so the only table that is correct for you is the one on your own transcript.
The IB Diploma is scored out of 45 — six subjects at 1 to 7, plus up to three points for the extended essay and theory of knowledge — with 24 the minimum pass. The IB publishes no GPA equivalent.
Unofficial estimate — send your transcript, not this page
Entering your grades
Pick the scale your grades are already on, then choose whether you are entering one overall figure or working subject by subject. One figure is right for a cumulative GPA or an overall percentage; subject rows are right when you want the average worked out and shown.
In subject mode each row takes a grade and a credit value. American transcripts use credit hours, and a four-credit course counts twice as much as a two-credit one. Where a system has no credits — GCSE, IB — leave every weight at one and the result is a plain mean of the grades.
The weighted option adds a bonus for honours and Advanced Placement courses, and the size of that bonus is a box you fill in rather than a number this tool asserts. Schools set their own weighting, so the correct value is the one printed in your school's own handbook.
- US 4.0 unweighted GPA, from letter grades and credit hours
- US weighted GPA, with your school's own honours and AP bonus
- Pakistan matric or FSc percentage
- Pakistan HEC 4.0 CGPA
- GCSE 9–1, Cambridge A*–G, and IB Diploma 1–7
How the weighted average is worked out
A grade point average is one formula: multiply each subject's grade point by its credits, add those products together, and divide by the total credits. This is the only figure on the page the tool computes rather than looks up, and it is printed row by row so the sum can be checked by hand.
For a weighted GPA the same sum runs twice. Once with the bonus added to each honours or AP course, and once without it, so both numbers are visible side by side. That matters because an application form asking for an unweighted GPA is asking for the second figure, not the first.
The average of grades on a scale that has no published points — Cambridge A*–G — is not calculated at all. There is no number behind the letters to average, and inventing one to produce a mean would be arithmetic on a fiction.
Why so many cells hold a dash
No examination board, university or education ministry publishes a conversion between a percentage and a grade point average. The popular shortcuts — multiply the CGPA by 25, divide the percentage by 25 — have no publisher behind them, and both give answers that no admissions office would recognise.
Where a real published statement exists, this tool uses it and says so. Ofqual pinned three points at which the GCSE 9–1 scale lines up with the old A*–G scale: the bottom of grade 7 sits at the bottom of an A, the bottom of grade 4 at the bottom of a C, and the bottom of grade 1 at the bottom of a G. It also said a grade 9 is awarded to fewer candidates than an A* was. It published nothing for grades 8, 6, 5, 3 and 2, so nothing appears for them here.
The honest answer to the underlying question is also the most useful one. American universities recalculate an applicant's GPA from the transcript themselves, on their own scale and their own view of which courses count. Pakistani universities apply their own letter bands under HEC policy, and those differ between campuses. In both cases the number that matters is theirs, not one produced here.
Each row in the comparison table carries a badge saying which of these it is: published, a widespread convention, a figure to read with care, or not published at all.
Where students go wrong
Treating a Pakistani percentage as though it were an American one is the biggest single error. Marking is far more severe here: an FSc result in the seventies is a strong result, while seventy-something on a US transcript is a C. Running the number through a ten-point US band and calling the result a GPA understates a good student badly.
The second is assuming a 3.4 CGPA is a 3.4 anywhere. Both scales run from zero to four, so the numeral survives the journey, but the bands behind it do not: the percentage needed for an A differs from one grading key to the next, so identical numbers can represent quite different performance.
The third is sending a converted figure instead of a transcript. Admissions offices ask for the original document precisely so they can do the conversion themselves, and a self-converted GPA on a form usually gets overwritten — or, worse, read as an attempt to improve on the record.
Common questions
How do I convert my percentage to a GPA?
There is no official conversion, and any site giving you one to two decimal places has invented it. This tool will show what the common ten-point US school band would make of a percentage, labelled as a convention, but American universities recalculate GPA from the transcript themselves.
Is multiplying a CGPA by 25 a valid way to get a percentage?
No. It is the most widespread error on this topic. A 4.0 scale and a percentage scale are built from different band tables, and no awarding body or ministry endorses that arithmetic. The figure it produces has no standing on an application.
What is a GCSE grade 7 on the old A*–G scale?
The bottom of grade 7 was set at the bottom of the old grade A, so a 7 is broadly an A. The same anchoring puts grade 4 at the bottom of a C and grade 1 at the bottom of a G. Ofqual published no equivalent for the grades between those anchors.
How is a weighted GPA calculated?
Add a bonus to the grade point of each honours or Advanced Placement course, then take the sum of grade point times credits and divide by the total credits. The bonus is set by the school — half a point for honours and a full point for AP are the most common, but they are not a standard.
Sources
- GCSE 9 to 1 grades: a brief guide for parents — Ofqual
- Conversion for equivalence — Inter Board Committee of Chairmen, Pakistan
- Federal Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education — FBISE, Islamabad
- Cambridge IGCSE Mathematics 0580 — Cambridge Assessment International Education
- Cambridge IGCSE Mathematics (9–1) 0980 — Cambridge Assessment International Education
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