WAM and GPA Calculator

Guide

WAM or GPA?

Australian universities do not share one system. Melbourne, Monash, UNSW, Sydney, UTS and Deakin report a Weighted Average Mark, the credit-weighted average of your percentage marks (Monash also weights by year level). Others, such as UQ and Newcastle, report a Grade Point Average on a 7-point scale, and UTS and ANU publish both. UNSW and Sydney state that they do not use a GPA, and Melbourne treats its WAM as the equivalent of a GPA elsewhere.

How WAM is calculated

WAM = sum(mark × credit points) ÷ sum(credit points). A subject worth 25 points counts twice as much as a 12.5-point subject.

Melbourne’s own example: 76 and 67 in two 12.5-point subjects and 81 in a 37.5-point subject give a WAM of 77.2.

Melbourne: grades are H1 80–100, H2A 75–79, H2B 70–74, H3 65–69, P 50–64 and N 0–49. Results marked ^ (from 2020 and the second half of 2021) are excluded from the WAM; tick exclude for those subjects.

UNSW: HD 85–100, DN 75–84, CR 65–74, PS 50–64, FL 0–49. Where a course has a grade but no mark, UNSW uses a nominal mark (PS 55, CR 70, DN 80, HD 90, FL 25; AF counts as 0). Type the grade code into the mark box and the nominal mark is used.

Deakin: HD 80+, D 70–79, C 60–69, P 50–59, N below 50. Fail marks count, and a Pass Conceded (PC) counts as 50.

How the 7-point GPA is calculated

Each grade has a value: HD 7, D 6, C 5, P 4, Fail 0 (the University of Newcastle’s table). GPA = sum(grade value × units) ÷ sum(units). Newcastle’s own example works out at 430 ÷ 90 = 4.78.

The generic preset converts marks to grades using either an 85 or 80 High Distinction cut-off, and lets you change the fail value, because some universities give a fail more than 0.

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