Grade Improvement
Free Grade Improvement calculator with clear step-by-step results.
About Grade Improvement
Works in course weight rather than raw scores. Your current percentage only counts for the portion of the course already graded, so the remaining assessments carry the whole gap - which is why leaving improvement late compresses the required average sharply.
Formulas
Average needed
Needed = (target - current x completed weight) / (1 - completed weight)
Weight per assessment
Weight = remaining course weight / assessments remaining
Worked example
With the default values below, Grade Improvement returns Average needed on remaining work of 92.00%. Change any input above and every figure here is recalculated in your browser.
Inputs used
- Current course percentageaccepts 0–100 %
- 72 %
- Target course percentageaccepts 0–100 %
- 80 %
- Share of the course already gradedaccepts 0–99 %
- 60 %
- Assessments remainingaccepts 1–30
- 3
Results
- Average needed on remaining work
- 92.00% %
- Points between current and target
- 8.00 pp
- Course weight per remaining assessment
- 13.33% %
- How hard the target is
- Reachable but demanding
Step by step
- 1Values used
- 2Average needed
- 3Weight per assessment
- 4Average needed on remaining work= 92.00 %
- 5Points between current and target= 8.00 pp
- 6Course weight per remaining assessment= 13.33 %
- 7How hard the target is= Reachable but demanding
Assumptions and limits
- The result is derived only from the 4 inputs listed above. Anything not among them is not part of the calculation.
- In particular, this calculator does not take inflation, tax, fees or charges or compounding frequency into account.
- Figures are rounded for display to 2 decimal places, so totals built from several rounded parts can differ slightly from the unrounded arithmetic.
How these calculators are built and tested is described on the Methodology page. If a figure looks wrong, please report it.
Frequently Asked Questions
Why does the required average rise so fast late in a course?
The remaining weight shrinks while the gap stays the same. At 90% graded, closing an eight-point gap needs eighty points of improvement on the last tenth.
Are all remaining assessments equally weighted?
This assumes so. If one is worth much more than the others, weight it explicitly - hitting the target may depend almost entirely on that single piece.