Final Exam Grade Calculator: 80% Toward an 85% Final
Find the final exam score you need to reach your desired grade, or compute a weighted average of up to five grades.
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About this tool
This page opens the grade calculator already set to “required final exam score” mode with a current grade of 80%, a desired final grade of 85%, and the final exam weighted at 40% of the course — the result below is computed the instant the page loads, not a static example.
The math: required score = (desired − current·(1−w)) / w, where w is the exam weight as a fraction. Plug in 80, 85 and 0.4 and the required score comes out to 92.5% — a real, achievable target: with a sizeable 40% exam weight, a strong (not perfect) final performance is enough to lift the course grade the full 5 points.
This is exactly the kind of question worth checking early in the semester, not the night before the exam — knowing you need a realistic 92.5% rather than a flawless 100% changes how you'd actually study. Change any of the three numbers above to see your own real final exam target instead of this worked example.
Example. A current grade of 80, a desired grade of 85, and a final worth 50 percent requires a final score of 90.
Limit. Weighted-average mode accepts at most five grade and weight pairs.