Final Grade Calculator

Find out what grade you need on your final exam to get your desired course grade. See scenarios for different final exam scores.

Your final course grade is a weighted blend of what you've already earned and whatever you score on the final exam, so working backward from a target grade to a required exam score is straightforward algebra once you know the blend's weighting. This calculator solves that equation: Current Grade contributes (1 - Final Exam Weight) of your final course grade, and whatever you score on the final contributes the remaining Final Exam Weight share, so Grade Needed on Final is whatever score makes those two pieces add up to Desired Grade. Raising Desired Grade always raises Grade Needed on Final, typically by more than a point for each point you raise your target, since the final usually carries only a fraction (Final Exam Weight) of the total grade, so the exam score has to move further than the target does to compensate. Current Grade works in the opposite direction across nearly the entire range this calculator allows: a higher grade going into the final means less ground to make up, so it lowers Grade Needed on Final, except in the one edge case where Final Exam Weight is set to 100% -- there Current Grade carries no weight in the final course grade at all, so it stops mattering. Is It Possible? and Difficulty translate the raw percentage into a plain-language read: a Grade Needed on Final above 100% means no score, however high, can reach your Desired Grade at that weighting, while a negative required score means you have already secured your target regardless of the final's outcome. Grade Needed on Final is reported unclamped, so it can read far below zero or far above 100 at extreme weightings -- that magnitude tells you how much slack you have, not a score you could actually be given. Score to Aim For is the same figure clipped to the 0-100 range you can really earn.