University of California, Berkeley CGPA Calculator
Berkeley, California · public · est. 1868
At University of California, Berkeley, 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 UC Berkeley grading scale shown below, on which 97% or more earns A+ (4.00 points) and the maximum CGPA is 4.00. The lowest passing grade is D-, awarded from 60%.
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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.
University of California, Berkeley grading scale
UC Berkeley grades on an absolute scale out of 4.00 with 13 bands. A mark of 97% or above earns A+ (4.00), and 60% is the lowest passing band (D-). The calculator above already applies these bands, so you can enter raw marks instead of letters.
| Marks (%) | Grade | Grade point |
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| 97–100 | A+ | 4.00 |
| 93–96 | A | 4.00 |
| 90–92 | A- | 3.70 |
| 87–89 | B+ | 3.30 |
| 83–86 | B | 3.00 |
| 80–82 | B- | 2.70 |
| 77–79 | C+ | 2.30 |
| 73–76 | C | 2.00 |
| 70–72 | C- | 1.70 |
| 67–69 | D+ | 1.30 |
| 63–66 | D | 1.00 |
| 60–62 | D- | 0.70 |
| 0–59 | F | 0.00 |
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- https://registrar.berkeley.edu/faculty-staff-resources/grade-definitions/ · retrieved 2026-09-02UC Berkeley Office of the Registrar's own 'Grade Definitions' page, fetched directly. Quoted verbatim: grade points per unit are A+/A/A-=4.0/4.0/3.7, B+/B/B-=3.3/3.0/2.7, C+/C/C-=2.3/2.0/1.7, D+/D/D-=1.3/1.0/0.7, F=0.0, and explicitly: 'The grade of A+, when awarded, represents extraordinary achievement, but does not receive grade point credit beyond that received for the grade of A', i.e. Berkeley deliberately caps A+ at the same 4.0 as a plain A rather than awarding bonus points above 4.0 the way Stanford or Arizona State do for the same letter.
How grading works at UC Berkeley
UC Berkeley's GPA works the familiar way, each course's grade point, on a 4.0 scale, is multiplied by its unit value, and the total is divided by units attempted, but Berkeley's own registrar spells out one detail many calculators get wrong: A+ is real and appears on a Berkeley transcript, yet it deliberately carries no bonus grade points over a plain A. Both are worth exactly 4.0, a policy Berkeley states explicitly rather than leaving to assumption, unlike schools such as Stanford or Arizona State that do award A+ extra value above 4.0.
Chartered in 1868 as the original campus of the University of California system, Berkeley applies plus/minus grading uniformly across A, B, C, and D grades, with each plus or minus worth three-tenths of a grade point relative to the unsuffixed letter (A- is 3.7, not 4.0; D+ is 1.3, not 1.0), while F carries no grade points at all and is calculated straight into the GPA as a zero.
A number of grades that appear on a Berkeley transcript are deliberately excluded from the GPA math entirely: In Progress (IP), Pass (P), Satisfactory (S), Not Pass (NP), and Unsatisfactory (U) all carry zero grade points and are not counted toward a student's grade point average, the same treatment most large public research universities give to pass/fail coursework. Berkeley does not publish one official percentage-to-letter-grade conversion, like most US research universities, exact grading criteria are set by each course's own instructor, so the percentage bands on this page are a standard approximation layered on top of Berkeley's own confirmed letter-grade point values.
Worked example: a full semester on the UC Berkeley scale
Here is a complete 15 credit-hour semester scored against the UC Berkeley 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 | 99 | A+ | 4.00 | 3 × 4.00 = 12.00 |
| Core course II | 4 | 91 | A- | 3.70 | 4 × 3.70 = 14.80 |
| Core course III | 3 | 85 | B | 3.00 | 3 × 3.00 = 9.00 |
| Elective | 3 | 75 | C | 2.00 | 3 × 2.00 = 6.00 |
| Lab / practical | 2 | 68 | D+ | 1.30 | 2 × 1.30 = 2.60 |
| Total | 15 | 44.40 |
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 UC Berkeley grading table. 99 out of 100 is 99%, 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 × 3.70 = 14.80, 3 × 3.00 = 9.00, 3 × 2.00 = 6.00, 2 × 1.30 = 2.60.
- Add the quality points and the credit hours. Adding the five courses gives 44.40 quality points across 15 credit hours.
- Divide to get the semester GPA. 44.40 ÷ 15 = 2.96, the semester GPA for this term at UC Berkeley.
- 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 + 44.40) ÷ (45 + 15) = 3.14.
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 UC Berkeley programmes use this scale?
The same grading plan applies across UC Berkeley’s degree programmes, including Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences (EECS), Haas School of Business, Data Science and Molecular & Cell Biology. 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.
UC Berkeley CGPA: frequently asked questions
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Is there an official percentage cutoff for each Berkeley letter grade?
How does Berkeley compute semester GPA versus cumulative GPA?
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CalcScholar is not affiliated with or endorsed by University of California, Berkeley. The UC Berkeley 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 UC Berkeley examination department is the authority.