Calculate your York University GPA on the official 9-point scale, with York's credit-weighted formula, the Honours standing thresholds and the repeated-course rule.
| Grade | Course credits |
|---|
Enter each course's York grade and its credit value — a full-year course is usually 6 credits and a half course 3. Only courses taken at York count.
| Grade | Grade points | Percentage range (guideline) and description |
|---|---|---|
| A+ | 9 | 90–100% · Exceptional |
| A | 8 | 80–89% · Excellent |
| B+ | 7 | 75–79% · Very Good |
| B | 6 | 70–74% · Good |
| C+ | 5 | 65–69% · Competent |
| C | 4 | 60–64% · Fairly Competent |
| D+ | 3 | 55–59% · Passing |
| D | 2 | 50–54% · Marginally Passing |
| E | 1 | 40–49% · Marginally Failing |
| F | 0 | 0–39% · Failing |
| Input | Result |
|---|---|
| A (8) in 6 credits + B+ (7) in 3 credits | 7.67 / 9.00 |
| B (6) in 6 + C+ (5) in 6 + A (8) in 3 | 6.00 / 9.00 |
| D (2) in 6 + E (1) in 3 | 1.67 / 9.00 — below the 4.0 graduation minimum |
| A+ (9) in 3 + C (4) in 3 | 6.50 / 9.00 |
| Rule | What it means for your average |
|---|---|
| York courses only | Transfer credits and letter-of-permission courses from other universities are excluded, because York does not have grade points for them |
| Credit-weighted | A 6-credit full course counts twice as much as a 3-credit half course — so a weak mark in a big course hurts more |
| Two failing grades | E (1 point, marginal failure) and F (0 points) are both failures. Neither earns degree credit and neither satisfies a prerequisite |
| Pass/Fail courses | Credits are earned but the course is left out of every average |
| Sessional vs cumulative | Sessional GPA covers one session, cumulative GPA covers your whole degree. Honours standing is judged on the cumulative figure |
| Cumulative GPA | What it unlocks |
|---|---|
| 5.00 and above | Minimum to keep Honours status and proceed in a 120-credit Honours BA |
| 4.00 and above | Minimum for the 90-credit BA; below this you cannot normally graduate |
| 5.00 (BAS, BHRM) | Some professional programs, such as BAS and BHRM, require 5.0 rather than 4.0 |
| Below 4.00 at the 90-credit mark | York normally allows up to 12 further credits taken at York to try to raise the cumulative GPA to 4.00 |
York allows a course to be repeated twice, for a maximum of three attempts. When you repeat a course for degree credit, only the latest attempt counts in the major, cumulative, sessional and overall averages, and the course is credited only once toward your degree.
This is good news if you failed a heavy course and want to repair the damage: re-taking a 6-credit course and replacing an F with a B lifts your cumulative average by roughly the same amount as adding two extra B half courses. Check the current policy on repeating passed courses first, because the rules for improving a passing grade differ from re-taking a failure.
Grade points, percentage guidelines, the pass/fail definition, the sessional and cumulative average definitions and the repeated-course policy are taken from York University's published grading scheme and Faculty academic advising pages. The percentage ranges are guidelines rather than part of the official scheme — York's letter grades are the authoritative record.
Multiply each course's grade point (A+ is 9, down to F at 0) by the course's credit value, add those products, then divide by the total credits. A 6-credit A (8) and a 3-credit B+ (7) give (8×6 + 7×3) ÷ 9 = 7.67.
Yes — 5.0 is the cumulative minimum for Honours standing. The scale runs to 9, so 5.0 sits in the mid C+ range. Anyone aiming for graduate school or a competitive professional program should be well above it.
No. York only includes courses taken at York in grade point averages, because there are no York grade points attached to transfer credit. The credits may still satisfy degree requirements.
Both are failing grades and both are worth less than the 2.0 needed to pass, but E (1 point) means a marginal failure and F (0 points) a clear failure. E pulls your average down less than F, but neither earns credit or satisfies a prerequisite.
No. At York the latest attempt becomes the grade of record and the earlier attempt drops out of the GPA calculation entirely — the opposite of how LSAC treats a retake.