Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam Technical University CGPA Calculator
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CGPA at Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam Technical University is total quality points divided by total credit hours, counted across every semester you have completed, a quality point being one credit hour multiplied by that course's grade point. AKTU awards those grade points through the official AKTU grading scale shown below, a 8-band table that runs from 10.00 (A+, 90% and above) down to 0.00 for a fail, giving a maximum CGPA of 10.00. The lowest passing grade is E, awarded from 40%.
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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.
Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam Technical University grading scale
AKTU grades on an absolute scale out of 10.00 with 8 bands. A mark of 90% or above earns A+ (10.00), and 40% is the lowest passing band (E). The calculator above already applies these bands, so you can enter raw marks instead of letters.
| Marks (%) | Grade | Grade point |
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| 0–39 | F | 0.00 |
| 40–44 | E | 4.00 |
| 45–49 | D | 5.00 |
| 50–59 | C | 6.00 |
| 60–69 | B | 7.00 |
| 70–79 | B+ | 8.00 |
| 80–89 | A | 9.00 |
| 90–100 | A+ | 10.00 |
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- https://aktu.ac.in/pdf/Academic/Programmes/Bachelors/Ordinance/B_Tech_Ordinance_2016-17.pdf · retrieved 2026-09-02AKTU 'B.Tech Ordinance' (Choice Based Credit System), clause 14.1: 'The Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam Technical University (APJAKTU) Lucknow adopts absolute grading system wherein the marks are converted to grades... The grading system is with the following letter grades and grade points scale.' The table awards A+/A/B+/B/C/D/E/F grade points 10/9/8/7/6/5/4/0 for percentage bands 90-100 / 80-89 / 70-79 / 60-69 / 50-59 / 45-49 / 40-44 / 0-39 respectively. Clause 14.3 notes the University reserves a right to 'scale/moderate' marks 'whenever required... on the basis of the result statistics', an exception-handling provision rather than the university's everyday grading method, which remains this fixed absolute table. Independently corroborated by an identical table published by an AKTU-affiliated institute (Noida Institute of Engineering & Technology) citing the same ordinance. brandColor is an approximation, not from a published brand guideline.
How grading works at AKTU
AKTU works out SGPA for a semester by multiplying each course's grade point by its credits, adding those figures together, and dividing by the total credits taken that semester; CGPA repeats the same sum across every semester completed. The grade point itself comes straight from AKTU's own eight-band absolute table - A+ down to F - which the university's B.Tech ordinance describes explicitly as an 'absolute grading system wherein the marks are converted to grades', in contrast to universities that curve results against the class.
Founded in 2000 as Uttar Pradesh Technical University and renamed in 2015 in honour of the former President and aerospace scientist Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, AKTU is headquartered in Lucknow and is one of the largest affiliating technical universities in India, overseeing engineering, management, pharmacy and architecture education at several hundred colleges spread across Uttar Pradesh. Because the university sets one common CBCS ordinance rather than letting each affiliated college define its own scale, a percentage score converts to the identical grade point at any AKTU-affiliated institute.
A course is passed once a student clears at least a 'C' grade (50% and above under AKTU's table); scores from 40% up to 49% earn a passing-but-marginal D or E grade with reduced points, while anything below 40% is an outright F carrying zero grade points, at which point the course has to be cleared again before it counts toward the degree.
Worked example: a full semester on the AKTU scale
Here is a complete 15 credit-hour semester scored against the AKTU 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.
| Course | Credit hrs | Marks /100 | Grade | Grade point | Quality points |
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| Core course I | 3 | 95 | A+ | 10.00 | 3 × 10.00 = 30.00 |
| Core course II | 4 | 85 | A | 9.00 | 4 × 9.00 = 36.00 |
| Core course III | 3 | 75 | B+ | 8.00 | 3 × 8.00 = 24.00 |
| Elective | 3 | 55 | C | 6.00 | 3 × 6.00 = 18.00 |
| Lab / practical | 2 | 47 | D | 5.00 | 2 × 5.00 = 10.00 |
| Total | 15 | 118.00 |
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 AKTU grading table. 95 out of 100 is 95%, which falls in the A+ band and is worth 10.00 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 × 10.00 = 30.00, 4 × 9.00 = 36.00, 3 × 8.00 = 24.00, 3 × 6.00 = 18.00, 2 × 5.00 = 10.00.
- Add the quality points and the credit hours. Adding the five courses gives 118.00 quality points across 15 credit hours.
- Divide to get the semester GPA. 118.00 ÷ 15 = 7.86, the semester GPA for this term at AKTU.
- Fold the semester into your CGPA. If you had already completed 45 credit hours at a CGPA of 8.00, those carry 360.00 quality points. Add this semester and the CGPA becomes (360.00 + 118.00) ÷ (45 + 15) = 7.97.
The division actually gives 7.8667; result cards print two decimals, so it appears as 7.86. 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 AKTU programmes use this scale?
The same grading plan applies across AKTU’s degree programmes, including B.Tech Computer Science and Engineering, MBA, MCA, B.Pharm and B.Arch. 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.
AKTU CGPA: frequently asked questions
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CalcScholar is not affiliated with or endorsed by Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam Technical University. The AKTU name and logo are used only to identify whose grading scale this calculator applies, and any result produced here is unofficial. Your transcript from the AKTU examination department is the authority.