Choose the record that answers your question
A learning-management gradebook may show assignment percentages, not the GPA maintained by your registrar. Open the transcript or academic-history section of your student portal. If the GPA is absent, ask the school whether it calculates one.
Locate the matching totals
Look for a term, cumulative, institutional, or transfer label and the associated quality points and GPA hours. Credits earned can differ from GPA hours; do not substitute one for the other simply because both are credit totals.
Keep the reported precision
Copy the displayed GPA and identify its scale and weighting. When planning a future semester, exact quality points are preferable to reconstructing points from a rounded number. Do not invent an official GPA from a calculator estimate.
ILLUSTRATIVE EXAMPLE
Put the numbers together
A record with 144 quality points and 45 GPA credits gives 3.20. A separate “credits earned” total of 48 would not change that denominator.
Method and limits
These examples use stated mathematical assumptions, not a claim that every institution uses the same policy. Read our methodology or check the available institution-specific profiles. Your transcript is the official record.