Australian Catholic University (ACU) GPA Calculator

ACU records your performance in most units as a mark out of 100, which converts to a letter grade on a 0–7 grade-point scale: High Distinction (HD) 85–100 = 7, Distinction (DI) 75–84 = 6, Credit (CR) 65–74 = 5, Pass (PA) 50–64 = 4, and Fail (NN) 0–49 = 0. This one table applies university-wide, across every ACU campus.

Note the Australian sense of the letters: at ACU, D means Distinction — the second-highest grade — and C (CR) means Credit, not a near-fail. See the Grade Scale Reference above for every grade and its grade points.

A sixth outcome, Fail Hurdle (NH), is also worth 0 grade points. It is used specifically when you are withdrawn from a professional-experience placement for unsatisfactory performance, rather than for ordinary coursework underperformance.

Some units are ungraded — assessed only as Pass Ungraded (PS) or Fail Ungraded (NU), with no percentage mark recorded at all.

Your grade point average is the average of your unit grades, weighted by each unit's credit points:

GPA = SUM (grade point value × unit credit points) / SUM unit credit points

Three grades are excluded from your GPA calculation: Pass Ungraded (PS), Credit Granted (CG), and Withdrawn Without Academic Penalty (WW). Every graded unit — including a Fail (NN) or Fail Hurdle (NH), both worth 0 — counts toward your average.

Repeating a unit: if the Course Adviser requires you to repeat a previously completed unit (for example after an interruption to your studies), each attempt is recorded on your transcript and does contribute to your GPA. If you choose to repeat a unit voluntarily on a non-award, full fee-paying basis, that attempt is recorded on your transcript but does not contribute to your GPA.

ACU does not set a single minimum cumulative GPA to remain enrolled. Instead, your academic progress is formally reviewed after each semester's results are released, based on how many of your enrolled units or credit points you failed in that review period.

• At risk: you are warned if you fail 50% or more of your enrolled units/credit points in a review period (the first time, or again in a later non-consecutive period), or if you fail the same unit twice.
• Unsatisfactory progress: triggered by failing 50%+ of your units in two consecutive review periods (or three non-consecutive ones), failing the same unit three times, or failing any professional-experience unit. You will be required to show cause in writing why your enrolment should not be terminated.
• Termination: can follow failing to show cause, failing 50%+ of your units in three consecutive (or four total) review periods, failing the same unit a fourth time, or exceeding the maximum time allowed to complete your program.

If your enrolment is terminated, you may be offered an approved exit qualification if you've met its requirements, and you generally cannot apply for readmission until two standard study periods have passed.

To be eligible for conferral of any ACU award, you must comply with all applicable University statutes, policies, procedures, regulations and rules; pay all relevant fees and charges; and complete all requirements prescribed for your program.

Minimum ACU-based study: normally, you must complete at least one-quarter of the units required for your program — and at least one-quarter of the units required for any major, double major or specialisation — through study undertaken at ACU itself, in units not already credited toward another completed award.

Time limits to complete your program (excluding approved interruptions): Bachelor and Sub-Bachelor programs follow the formula 2n+1 (twice the full-time-equivalent course length, plus one year); Graduate Certificate 2 years; Graduate Diploma 4 years; Masters Degree 6 years.

If you're in a Bachelor Honours program, your overall Honours classification is a separate calculation from your regular unit GPA. It is based on the marks you achieve in all units required for the Honours course, weighted by each unit's credit points:

Honours mark range = SUM (Honours unit marks × unit credit points) / SUM Honours unit credit points

These mark bands mirror the HD/DI/CR/PA/NN bands used for ordinary unit grading, but the classification is computed across your whole Honours course, not unit by unit.

ACU can grant credit toward your program for formal, non-formal or informal prior learning, in three forms: Specified Credit (for units substantially the same as ones you've already passed elsewhere), Block Credit (a complete section of a program via an articulation pathway), and Unspecified Credit (for elective components, where your prior study doesn't correspond precisely to program components).

Maximum credit varies by award: up to one-half of a non-award course or Sub-Bachelor program, two-thirds of a 3-year Bachelor degree, three-quarters of a 4-year Bachelor degree, or one-half of a postgraduate coursework degree (excluding theses/dissertations/research projects).

Limits: credit is only granted for prior learning within the last 10 years (exceptions possible with Head of School approval), only once per completed award, and never for a failed unit unless you've since passed equivalent study. Regardless of credit granted, you must still complete at least one-quarter of your program's units through study at ACU.