| GRADE POINTS | HONOUR DEGREES |
| A (70-100%) – 5 | First Class: 4.50 and above |
| B (60-69%) – 4 | Second Class Upper: 3.50-4.49 |
| C (50-59%) – 3 | Second Class Lower: 2.50-3.49 |
| D (45-49%) – 2 | Third Class: 1.50-2.49 |
| E (40-44%) – 1 | |
| F (0-39%) – 0 |
Cumulative Grade Point Average (CGPA) is an assessment tool used to evaluate your academic performance. In other word, it is a grade that determine your stand in academic that is what you worth in term of academic performance. It vary from the highest which is 5.0 to the lowest 1.50. However, information from grapevine says, that current minimum cumulative grade point average for university of Lagos(UNILAG) is 1.90. in addition, we will like to draw your attention to compulsory courses that require no credit but pass and they have no influence on CGPA neither on GPA whether pass or not but they can prevent you from graduating from the institution. Example of such courses in university Lagos are GST 102, 202, 214, 103, etc. ok!
Pick up your pen and follow the steps below
- Draw out four columns
- write, the courses you registered in your first semester in the first column. E.g. EDF 222, EDA 305
- in the second column , opposite these courses write their units like 3units , 2units , 4units etc
- Input the grades in the third column,
- In the fourth column, multiple the units by grade e.g 3×5 (i.e grade a as listed in the table above)
- Sum up the units and grade columns
| COURSES | TOTAL UNIT | GRADE | TOTAL GRADE POINT |
| EDF 322 | 2 | 5.0(A) | 10 |
| EDA 305 | 3 | 3.0(C) | 9 |
| FED 301 | 4 | 3.0(C) | 12 |
| ECE 331 | 2 | 5.0(A) | 10 |
| *CRS 311 | 3 | 0.0(C) | 0 |
| Total | 14 | 41 |
- Divide total grade point by total unit to get GPA for the first semester 41/14 = 2.9GPA
- Follow step 1 to step 7 to calculate the second semester GPA
- To calculate your CGPA for the first and second semesters
| COURSES | TOTAL UNIT | GRADE | TOTAL GRADE POINT |
| EDF 334 | 2 | 5.0(A) | 10 |
| SSE 303 | 4 | 4.0(B) | 16 |
| ASE 336 | 4 | 4.0(B) | 16 |
| ECE 324 | 3 | 5.0(A) | 15 |
| Total | 13 | 57 |
Please, don’t make mistake of dividing GPAs by two (2) as erroneously done by many students. E.g. 2.9 + 3.0 / 2 = 2. 95
- At this point, You will add total grade point of the two semesters then divide them by the total unit of the two semester’s unit’s e.g.
[(41 + 57) / (14+13)] = 74/27 = 2.7 CGPA
In a situation where there is carry over course which is CRS 311. The cumulative grade point average will be calculated thus:
- Calculate GPA for the third semester by following step 1 to step 7.
| COURSES | TOTAL UNIT | GRADE | TOTAL GRADE POINT |
| EDA 411 | 3 | 3.0(C) | 9 |
| SSE 403 | 4 | 5.0(A) | 20 |
| FED 401 | 4 | 4.0(B) | 16 |
| ECE 440 | 4 | 5.0(A) | 20 |
| * CRS 311 | 3 | 5.0(A) | 15 |
| 18 | 80 |
- To calculate cumulative grade point average for the third semester follow step 10
- Now, to calculate CGPA with the carry over course (CRS 311). – you need to replace the old grade with the new grade before the calculation and also remove the unit and grade in the semester GPA where the course was carry over.
[ (41-0) + (57) + (80) ] / [(14-3) + (13) + (18) ] = 178/42 = 4.2
Note: you will follow the same process to calculate other semesters cumulative grade point average. Don’t divide directly please.
Hope you are able to follow through successfully, if otherwise go back to step 1 then continue to the last steps. Remember is not the number of time you go through the steps that matter but your ability to understand and apply it to calculate your own CGPA or other people CGPA.
It is in our great pleasure to appreciate your time to go through this write up for your own or other people benefit. You are the best!
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references
obafemi awolow university , course syetem unit available : http://www.oauife.edu.ng/administration/student-affairs/students-handbook/course-unit-system/
public fact (6th august 2013) how to calculate GPA and CGPA available : http://publicfact.blogspot.com/2013/08/v-behaviorurldefaultvmlo.html
