WAM / GPA calculator
Type a unit code and the credit points and level come from the Handbook, so the weighting is right without you having to remember it. Malaysia is scored on CGPA, which is a different scale.
Your marks stay in this browser. Nothing is sent to the server and nothing is saved to an account.
| Unit | Credit points | Level | Weight | Mark | Grade | Remove this unit |
|---|
WAM
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Marks, weighted by credit points and unit level.
CGPA
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Grades, weighted by credit points. No level weighting.
Units counted
0
Rows with credit points and a mark or grade.
What do I need this semester?
The same mark in every planned unit that would get you to the target, given everything above.
You need 70.0 in each of them to reach a WAM of 70. (D)
How these are calculated
Grades and their values
| Grade | Code | GPA (Australia) | CGPA (Malaysia) |
|---|---|---|---|
| High distinction | HD | 4.00 | 4.00 |
| Distinction | D | 3.00 | 3.67 |
| Credit | C | 2.00 | 2.85 |
| Pass | P | 1.00 | 2.15 |
| Near pass | NP | 0.70 | 1.70 |
| Fail | N | 0.30 | 1.15 |
| Hurdle fail | NH | 0.30 | 1.15 |
| Withdrawn fail | WN | 0.00 | 0.00 |
Level weighting (WAM only)
First-year undergraduate units count 0.5; every other level counts 1.0. It is the level of the unit, not the year you take it — a Level 1 unit taken in third year still counts 0.5. GPA does not use this weighting at all.
The parts people get wrong
- A fail counts, at its actual mark. Leaving it out flatters the result.
- A withdrawn fail counts as zero and keeps its credit points in the divisor, which is what makes it expensive.
- The 0.5 goes in the top and the bottom of the WAM. Halving only the top turns a 90 into a 45.
- Monash rounds the final mark first, so 79.51 is an 80 and a High distinction.
- These grades count for neither average: SFR, NE, NAS, WI, PGO, NPGO, WNGO.
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