What Grade Do I Need on My Final Exam?
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 with a lower-starting scenario prefilled: a current grade of 70%, a target final grade of 80%, and a final exam worth 50% of the course — the kind of gap a lot of students are staring down mid-semester when they realize their grade needs a real push.
Run the numbers — (80 − 70×0.5) / 0.5 — and the required exam score comes out to exactly 90%: demanding, but genuinely reachable. A heavily-weighted final (50% of the course) cuts both ways — it's exactly why a strong exam can still rescue a rougher first half of the semester.
Knowing the real number — 90%, not a vague “ace it” — is what makes a study plan possible. Recalculate with your own current grade, goal and exam weight in the tool above to get your actual 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.