Australian National University (ANU) GPA Calculator

ANU has used the same five-grade scale for all coursework courses since first semester 1994: High Distinction (HD), Distinction (D), Credit (CR), Pass (P), and Fail (N) — see the Grade Scale Reference above for the full mark bands and grade points. Each course result is recorded as a numerical mark from 0–100%, which determines your letter grade.

If you fail a course but are offered and pass a supplementary examination, you receive a Pass at a Supplementary Examination (PS) result, capped at a mark of 50 and worth the same 4 grade points as an ordinary Pass. Some administrative outcomes — Course Requirement Satisfied (CRS), deferred or pending results, and withdrawal codes — carry no grade point and are excluded from your GPA entirely.

ANU calculates your Grade Point Average (GPA) on a 7-point scale, published on your academic transcript: GPA = ∑(grade point value × units) / ∑(units). Each course's grade point is multiplied by its unit value, summed across your whole academic career, then divided by your total units attempted.

• You receive one GPA covering all units in one academic career (undergraduate or postgraduate coursework) — if you've completed both, you'll have a separate GPA for each.
• Courses graded on a straight pass/fail basis are not included in your GPA.
• Courses with interim or unresolved grades (deferred, pending, withheld) are excluded until resolved.
• A KU (continuing course) or IP (in progress) grade is folded into the GPA only once the final course in that series receives a final grade.

GPA is not calculated at all for students in a research program, the Doctor of Medicine and Surgery (MChD), or a non-award program. ANU also publishes a separate Weighted Average Mark (WAM), ∑(mark × units) / ∑(units), used where a raw mark-based average is required — courses with a Not Completed/Fail (NCN) or Withdrawn-with-failure (WN) result count toward the WAM with a nominal mark of zero.

ANU tracks your academic progress by counting course failures (a fail is any N, NCN, or WN result) across your academic career, under the Academic Progress Rule:

• Undergraduate: early intervention advice on your 1st fail, academic probation on your 4th fail, considered for exclusion on your 8th fail.
• Postgraduate coursework: early intervention advice on your 1st fail, academic probation on your 3rd fail, considered for exclusion on your 5th fail.

You've also failed to maintain satisfactory progress if you fail the same course a second time (placing you on probation for that course) or a third time (considered for exclusion), or if you don't achieve the results a specific program requires. If you're considered for exclusion, you can appeal by submitting a formal 'Show Cause' response.

You can reset your fail-count and restore good standing by passing 8 or more courses (undergraduate) or 6 or more courses (postgraduate) in consecutive teaching periods after your last fail, with no further fails in that period.

Alongside its course-grade scale, ANU uses a separate honours classification scale for honours-classified courses and final degree outcomes, based on the same 0–100% mark bands:

• 80–100 — First Class Honours (H1)
• 70–79 — Second Class Honours, Division A (H2A)
• 60–69 — Second Class Honours, Division B (H2B)
• 59 and below — Third Class Honours (H3)

For students who commenced before 1 January 2016, the same four mark bands determine Graduate Diploma and Masters (Coursework) exit standards — awarded “with Distinction” (80–100), “with Merit” (70–79), or the plain award (60% and below). Students who commenced on or after 1 January 2016 are classified instead under the Coursework Awards Rule.