Capital University of Science & Technology CGPA Calculator

Islamabad, Islamabad · private · est. 1998

At Capital University of Science & Technology, your CGPA is the credit-hour weighted average of every course you have taken: multiply each course's grade point by its credit hours, add those quality points across all your semesters, then divide by the total credit hours. Grade points come from the official Capital University of Science grading scale shown below, on which 90% or more earns A (4.00 points) and the maximum CGPA is 4.00. The lowest passing grade is D, awarded from 50%.

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Add one row per course this semester.

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Switch to “Enter marks” to see your exact percentage. It cannot be derived from letter grades alone, and Pakistan has no single official CGPA-to-percentage formula.

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Capital University of Science & Technology grading scale

Capital University of Science grades on an absolute scale out of 4.00 with 11 bands. A mark of 90% or above earns A (4.00), and 50% is the lowest passing band (D). The calculator above already applies these bands, so you can enter raw marks instead of letters.

Capital University of Science & Technology grading scale: marks, grade and grade point
Marks (%)	Grade	Grade point
0–49	F	0.00
50–53	D	1.00
54–57	D+	1.33
58–62	C-	1.67
63–67	C	2.00
68–71	C+	2.33
72–76	B-	2.67
77–80	B	3.00
81–85	B+	3.33
86–89	A-	3.67
90–100	A	4.00

All sources (2)

https://cust.edu.pk/static/uploads/2020/01/Grading-Policy-1.pdf · retrieved 2026-08-30Clean, unambiguous 11-band absolute table matching the standard Pakistani HEC-style pattern exactly (same shape as Superior University's table): A 90-100=4.00, A- 86-89=3.67, B+ 81-85=3.33, B 77-80=3.00, B- 72-76=2.67, C+ 68-71=2.33, C 63-67=2.00, C- 58-62=1.67, D+ 54-57=1.33, D 50-53=1.00, F below 50=0.00. Same document also defines P (pass), NC (no credit), W (withdrawal), I (incomplete, must convert to earned grade within following semester or automatically becomes F), S/US (satisfactory/unsatisfactory) and '( )' (grade replaced, i.e. repeat/improve convention) but does not specify a percentage table for these since they are non-GPA notations. No asterisk-marked deficiency-course convention found, so deficiencyCourses is omitted.
https://cust.edu.pk/my-capital/allpolicy/undergrad-regulations/ · retrieved 2026-08-30Official landing page that links the Grading Policy PDF used above; confirms minimum CGPA 2.00/4.00 for undergraduate warning status and 3.00/4.00 for MS/MPhil warning status.

How grading works at Capital University of Science

Capital University of Science and Technology, a private university in Islamabad known chiefly for its computing, engineering and management degrees, computes GPA the standard Pakistani way. Every course carries a grade point, that point multiplies against the course's credit hours, and the sum of all such products in a term divided by the credit hours attempted gives the semester's SGPA. Repeat that across every semester and the CGPA emerges, both figures bounded at 4.0 under the scale most HEC-aligned universities use. CUST applies the same formula whether a student is enrolled in BS Computer Science or BBA.

Founded in 1998, CUST built its early reputation on computer science and software engineering before expanding into electrical engineering and business administration, a trajectory shared by several private universities that grew out of Islamabad's tech-sector boom. Engineering degrees here typically carry a heavier lab and project-credit component than a business degree, which means the credit-hour denominator behind a semester's SGPA is rarely uniform across departments. Students switching majors, say from computer science to management sciences, often notice their overall workload measured in credit hours shifts even though the CGPA formula itself stays identical.

CUST has not made a single, confirmed grading table publicly available across all its departments, so this page defaults to the standard HEC-aligned scale until an official version can be verified. Students should rely on the percentage and grade recorded on their own transcript, issued by the examination department, rather than treating any figure here as final.

Worked example: a full semester on the Capital University of Science scale

Here is a complete 15 credit-hour semester scored against the Capital University of Science grade points in the table above. The marks are illustrative, but every number after them is calculated the same way the calculator on this page calculates yours.

Illustrative Capital University of Science semester showing marks, grades, credit hours and quality points
Course	Credit hrs	Marks /100	Grade	Grade point	Quality points
Core course I	3	95	A	4.00	3 × 4.00 = 12.00
Core course II	4	83	B+	3.33	4 × 3.33 = 13.32
Core course III	3	74	B-	2.67	3 × 2.67 = 8.01
Elective	3	70	C+	2.33	3 × 2.33 = 6.99
Lab / practical	2	60	C-	1.67	2 × 1.67 = 3.34
Total	15				43.66

Step by step

Convert each course mark to a grade point. Work out each course as a percentage of its total marks, then read the letter off the Capital University of Science grading table. 95 out of 100 is 95%, which falls in the A band and is worth 4.00 grade points.
Multiply each grade point by the course credit hours. Credit hours decide how much each course counts, so multiply to get quality points: 3 × 4.00 = 12.00, 4 × 3.33 = 13.32, 3 × 2.67 = 8.01, 3 × 2.33 = 6.99, 2 × 1.67 = 3.34.
Add the quality points and the credit hours. Adding the five courses gives 43.66 quality points across 15 credit hours.
Divide to get the semester GPA. 43.66 ÷ 15 = 2.91, the semester GPA for this term at Capital University of Science.
Fold the semester into your CGPA. If you had already completed 45 credit hours at a CGPA of 3.20, those carry 144.00 quality points. Add this semester and the CGPA becomes (144.00 + 43.66) ÷ (45 + 15) = 3.13.

Notice how the 4-credit course moves the average roughly twice as hard as the 2-credit lab. That credit-hour weighting is the whole reason a GPA is not just the average of your grade points.

Which Capital University of Science programmes use this scale?

The same grading plan applies across Capital University of Science’s degree programmes, including BS Computer Science, BS Electrical Engineering, BBA and BS Software Engineering. Credit-hour loads differ by programme (a typical semester runs 15 to 18 credit hours), but the marks-to-grade-point mapping above does not change between them.

Capital University of Science CGPA: frequently asked questions

What is a good CGPA at CUST?

CUST hasn't published its own honours cutoff, so students typically use the national benchmark: a CGPA somewhere from 3.5 to 3.7 out of 4.0 is generally regarded as strong across Pakistani private universities and helps with scholarship renewals and graduate school applications. The pass threshold to remain enrolled sits considerably lower. Ask your department for the current dean's list or merit scholarship criteria if you need an exact, up-to-date figure rather than a general estimate.

How is SGPA different from CGPA at CUST?

SGPA at CUST reflects only the courses taken in one semester, using that term's grade points weighted by credit hours. CGPA is the running average across every semester completed so far, so it moves more slowly and is harder to shift once several terms have accumulated. An engineering student with a heavy lab-credit semester will see that term's SGPA weighted accordingly, but the overall CGPA absorbs it gradually alongside every earlier semester.

How do I convert my CGPA to a percentage at CUST?

There's no official, single formula for converting a CGPA at CUST into a percentage, and no Pakistani university applies one uniform method either. Whatever percentage is printed directly on your official transcript is the figure that should be used for job applications, higher education admissions or scholarship forms. If your result card lists only CGPA, ask the examination office to confirm the corresponding percentage rather than estimating it yourself.

What happens to a failed or withdrawn course in CUST's CGPA calculation?

A failed course at CUST typically still counts its credit hours in the total attempted while earning zero grade points, which is why one failure can drag a CGPA down more sharply than an average grade lifts it. Withdrawn courses and incompletes are usually excluded from the running calculation until resolved, and non-credit modules generally play no role in CGPA at all. The precise handling of these codes at CUST should be checked against your own semester result card.

How many credit hours does a typical semester carry at CUST?

A typical undergraduate semester at CUST, in line with most Pakistani private universities, runs somewhere between 15 and 18 credit hours across five or six courses, with engineering programmes sometimes running slightly heavier due to lab components. The exact figure depends on your specific degree plan and year of study. Your course registration record for the current semester is the most reliable source for the credit hours you are actually attempting.

Does CUST follow the standard HEC grading scale?

No independently confirmed grading table shows CUST departing from the standard HEC-aligned 4.0 scale used by most Pakistani universities, so in the absence of an official published document, this page treats that national scale as the working default. Engineering departments occasionally attach additional minimum requirements in lab or project components on top of the base grade-point structure. If CUST publishes its own confirmed table, this page will reflect it instead of the generic default.

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