Cumulative GPA vs. semester GPA
Your semester GPA is what you earned in a single term. Your cumulative GPA is the running average across every term, weighted by credit hours.
The math is identical to a normal GPA calculation. You feed in every course you've taken, not just one term's worth.
The credit-hour weighting matters
One bad semester does not pull your cumulative GPA down by a full point. The more credits you have on the books, the slower your GPA moves. After 60 credits at a 3.7, a single 3-credit C (2.0) drops you to ~3.62. After 120 credits, the same C drops you to ~3.66.
How to recover from a bad term
If your cumulative GPA is X over C credits and you want to reach T, you need to earn:
(T × (C + new_credits) − X × C) / new_credits
See /raise for a calculator that runs this directly.
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