Required Exam Score
Free Required Exam Score calculator with clear step-by-step results.
About Required Exam Score
Converts your grade so far into banked course points, then solves for the exam score that closes the gap to your target. Because the exam carries only its own weight, a small weight makes the required score rise steeply - and the best-possible figure shows when a target has already slipped out of reach.
Formulas
Points banked
Banked = grade so far x weight already graded
Exam score needed
Needed = (target grade - banked points) / exam weight
Worked example
With the default values below, Required Exam Score returns Score needed on the final exam of 2,126.67%. Change any input above and every figure here is recalculated in your browser.
Inputs used
- Grade earned so faraccepts 0–100 %
- 74 %
- Course weight already gradedaccepts 0–99 %
- 65 %
- Weight of the final examaccepts 1–100 %
- 35 %
- Target final gradeaccepts 0–100 %
- 80 %
- Maximum score available on the examaccepts 1–150 %
- 100 %
Results
- Score needed on the final exam
- 2,126.67% %
- Course points already banked
- 48.10 pts
- Best final grade still possible
- 49.60% %
- Achievability
- Not achievable with this exam weight
Step by step
- 1Values used
- 2Points banked
- 3Exam score needed
- 4Score needed on the final exam= 2,126.67 %
- 5Course points already banked= 48.10 pts
- 6Best final grade still possible= 49.60 %
- 7Achievability= Not achievable with this exam weight
Assumptions and limits
- The result is derived only from the 5 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 is the required score above 100%?
Because the exam is not worth enough to recover the gap. Unless bonus marks are available, the target cannot be reached - lower it to the best possible grade shown.
What if the graded and exam weights do not sum to 100?
Then some assessment is unaccounted for. Add it into the graded weight if it is already returned, or into the exam weight if it is still to come.