Iqra University, Karachi GPA Calculator

Iqra University (IU) uses absolute, percentage-based grading on a 0.00–4.00 grade-point scale. Your semester percentage is matched to a fixed marks band, and each band carries its own grade point — shown in the Grade Scale Reference above.

This is IU's revised grading scheme, effective from Spring Semester 2025 for all newly admitted students across all of IU's campuses (Karachi and Islamabad). Students admitted before Spring 2025 continue under an earlier, coarser 6-band scale not shown here.

The scale tops out at 4.00 (grade A, 90–100%) and bottoms at 0.00 (grade F, below 50%); grades A-, B-, and C- use non-round grade points (3.67, 2.67, and 1.67 respectively) that closely track Pakistan's HEC national grading guidelines, though IU's own marks bands are set independently.

If you repeat a course — either to clear an F/W grade or to improve your CGPA — both attempts appear on your transcript, but only the better grade is used in your CGPA. Repeating a course to improve your CGPA (rather than to clear a fail) is only permitted in summer semesters and/or your final year, with Head of Department approval, and makes you ineligible for top student honours and awards even if your improved CGPA would otherwise qualify.

• A W (Withdrawal) grade is not counted toward your CGPA.
• An XF grade (fail due to attendance shortage) is likewise excluded from your GPA.
• Grades earned at another institution and transferred in are excluded from your IU CGPA.

IU's policy is explicit that your CGPA should never be rounded: “The GPA should not be rounded off to any nearest figures. If the system performs any rounding off in the GPA at any level it should be amended.”

To progress past your first semester, you must achieve a GPA above 0.00 (i.e., avoid failing every course) — falling short can lead to suspension. From your second semester onward:

• A semester GPA below 2.0 can place you on your first probation.
• Two consecutive semesters below 2.0 GPA leads to a second academic warning (probation).
• If your GPA still hasn't recovered to 2.0 after a second warning, you may be expelled.

Separately, a student who fails every subject or scores a 0.00 GPA in their very first semester has their admission terminated immediately, without warning or further probation.

A document inconsistency worth noting: the handbook's revised grading table (effective Spring 2025) carries a marginal note referencing a “Revised Probation Threshold Limit” of 1.70 semester GPA, but the handbook's own academic-promotions section (quoted above) states the threshold as 2.0 and never reconciles the two figures. Both numbers are printed in the same official document; IU has not clarified which applies.

To be awarded an undergraduate degree, an IU student must complete all required courses and achieve a minimum CGPA of 2.00 (on the 4.00 scale), in addition to completing the prescribed period of study and passing all required examinations. IU states this floor implements the Higher Education Commission (HEC) of Pakistan's Uniform Semester Policy guidelines.

IU's policy is explicit that this CGPA is never rounded up to reach the floor: “The GPA should not be rounded off to any nearest figures.”

IU awards a Gold Medal, program-wise, at the end of each academic batch (covering the two regular Fall and Spring semesters). To qualify, a student must:

• Secure the highest CGPA in their degree program, with no F grade anywhere in their academic record.
• Have no disciplinary punishments.
• Complete the degree within its prescribed time.
• Hold a minimum CGPA of 3.5.

Transfer students from other universities are excluded from the Gold Medal if they brought in more than 30% of their total credit hours via transfer; inter-campus IU transferees remain eligible. If two or more students tie on CGPA, total marks across the mandatory coursework break the tie — and if the tie still persists, multiple gold medals are awarded. Students who repeat any course (to clear a fail or to improve their CGPA) are separately excluded from top student honours, even if their resulting CGPA would otherwise qualify.

Iqra University accepts transfer credit only from official transcripts of HEC-recognized (or, for international institutions, nationally accredited) institutions, evaluated at the university's discretion:

• No credit is given for a grade lower than C+ (2.5 GPA, 67%).
• Grades earned at another institution are excluded from your IU CGPA — only coursework completed at IU counts toward it.
• Up to 50% of the courses required for your Bachelor's program can be satisfied via transfer credit.
• Course content must match an IU course to at least 60% to be considered for transfer.

Credit-transfer applications are not accepted once you've already started your program of study at IU.