Wednesday, February 23, 2011

Percentage to GPA conversion

There is no straight forward way (in fact "no way") to convert percentage marks (which is offered in many universities across India,Bangladesh,Pakistan,Nepal) to GPA.

Percentage marks and GPA will not have any correlation unless lots of factors are factored in (Factors like quality of education,academic standard,academic syllabus,highest marks obtained, mean and variance of the marks etc).

The way the GPA is calculated is completely different from percentage marks.

Most of the US universities (to which you are applying to), will have two entries in the application form to list your GPA. 1) GPA 2) Scale.

So if you have scored 75% marks in your undergrad, it should be given in the application form as
GPA: 75
Scale: 100

Some universities will ask you to leave it blank if your marks were not graded in terms of GPA. Just do as you are told and they will do the conversion themselves.

I do not want to list a conversion table to convert from percentage to GPA, which is absurd.

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