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Calculating Your Gpa

Module:

Career and Education Planning

Topic: Calculating Your GPA

Competency: Students will describe high school credits and explain how GPAs are

calculated.

Length: One class period

Objective:

Students will understand how to calculate grade point average (GPA).

Materials:

Student Handout: Calculating Your GPA

Description of Activity:

1. Explain to students what the acronym “GPA” stands for.

2. Explain how GPAs are averaged each semester or grading period.

3. Give each student a copy of the handout, Calculating Your GPA.

4. Ask students to experiment with grades by doing the following:

Review the sample to see how GPA is calculated.

Enter all “A’s” and then one “F” for one semester on the chart provided. What

impact does that one “F” have on that semester?

5. Next ask students to add their courses and grades in the last table and calculate

their GPA for the last grading period.

Wrap Up:

Stress that a high GPA is helpful for both admissions to colleges and for getting

scholarships.

Emphasize that GPAs constantly change as grades improve or slide.

Remind students that colleges will look at their GPA for each semester of high school,

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grades.

Evaluation:

Students will be able to demonstrate how to calculate a GPA.

Calculating Your Gpa