Australian GPA and WAM
One row per course: the grade, the percentage mark if your transcript shows one, and the course's unit value. The example loaded below is the worked example the University of Queensland publishes — grades 4, 5, 5 and 7 at unit values 2, 2, 1 and 1 — which it gives a GPA of 5.0.
| Grade | Mark (optional) | Units |
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Course by course
What each row contributes: the points its grade carries, the mark the weighted average used, its unit value, and the share of the total weight that unit value buys.
| Grade | Points | Mark used | Units | Share |
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The grade table (editable)
The point value each grade carries, and the mark the weighted average falls back to when a row has no mark of its own. Change any number and the result above recomputes.
| Grade | GPA points | Nominal mark |
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Where the arithmetic ends
This page does one thing twice: it takes a credit-weighted mean, once of grade points and once of marks. It does not know which of your results your university excludes from a GPA, it does not apply honours weightings that count later years more heavily, and it does not convert between the two answers, because no conversion is published. UNSW says outright that it cannot help with a GPA because it does not use one; a faculty weighted average mark, used for medals and honours, is calculated differently again and by each faculty. Use the number here; use your own regulations for what it means.
Questions
How is the GPA worked out here?
Each row's grade becomes a point value from the table below, multiplied by that row's units, and the total is divided by the total units. That is the formula the Australian National University and the University of Queensland both publish. A row without a grade or without a unit value is ignored rather than counted as a zero.
Why are two GPA figures shown?
Because the universities that use the 7-point scale do not agree on what a failing grade is worth. The University of Queensland's formula uses the grade itself, so a grade of 2 contributes two points. The Australian National University scores every fail as 0. The result line gives both readings of your own transcript and the gap between them.
What is a WAM, and why is it not a converted GPA?
A weighted average mark is the credit-weighted mean of your percentage marks, which is the formula UNSW publishes. It is a separate statistic rather than a rescaled GPA, and UNSW states plainly that it does not use a grade point average system at all. Dividing a GPA by seven and multiplying by a hundred produces a number no university publishes.
What happens on a row where I leave the mark blank?
The WAM falls back to the nominal mark shown against that grade in the table below. Those defaults are the nominal marks UNSW publishes for results recorded without a mark: 90, 80, 70, 55 and 25. They are editable, and a real mark always beats a nominal one, so enter marks wherever you have them.
Is the grade table my university's table?
No. It is the 7-point scale with the two published conventions available, and every number in it is editable. Point values, honours grades, and which results count at all are set by each university's own rules. Your university's published table wins.
Which results does this leave out?
Nothing automatically. Real regulations exclude several result types from a GPA - courses graded pass or fail without a mark, withdrawals without failure, results still pending, credit transferred from elsewhere - and the lists differ by university. This page averages exactly the rows you enter, so leave out whatever your own rules exclude.
Can I share a result?
Yes. The course rows are stored in the page URL and the copy-link button copies it. Edits to the grade table are not stored in the URL, so a shared link opens with the default point values and nominal marks.