Every weight is editable because every syllabus is different; the tool computes with your numbers and asserts no school's rules. Below: how category weighting works, what to do when a category is not finished yet, and how to read a mid semester grade honestly.
WeSolve+ reads the whole document and writes the questions for you
Upload your PDF, photograph your notebook, or point the camera. WeSolve+ writes questions from that material, explains why each answer is right, reads the chapter back to you as a podcast, and remembers every item you missed until you own it.
The tool below is a small browser-only tool and it is not WeSolve+: paste a few lines and text rules turn them into cards on the spot. The real app, the one that uses AI, is behind the link above.
Course grade from categories
Runs in your browser; nothing is sent or stored. Enter weights from your syllabus, they should usually total 100, and the score you carry in each category. Rows left empty are ignored, so an unfinished category can simply be left out while you check the rest.
The weighted sum your syllabus describes
Most syllabi define the grade as percentages: homework 20, quizzes 20, midterm 25, final 35. Your course grade is each category's score times its weight, summed and divided by the weights entered. The tool does exactly that arithmetic, which means it agrees with your instructor's spreadsheet whenever your inputs match the syllabus. When results differ, the cause is almost always a weight or a dropped lowest score rule, not the formula.
Mid semester: reading a grade with categories unfinished
Before the final exists, the honest grade is the weighted average of what is finished. Leave the final's row empty and the tool averages the completed categories only, which answers the real question: how am I doing on work graded so far? Filling the final's row with a guess turns the reading into a scenario, useful too, but label it as one in your head. The two readings answer different questions and mixing them is how students surprise themselves in December.
Dropped scores, extra credit and syllabus quirks
Syllabi carry local rules the calculator cannot guess: the lowest quiz dropped, extra credit capped at five points, participation graded by attendance. Handle them at input time: enter the quiz average after the drop, add capped extra credit to its category's score. The tool computes the arithmetic; the syllabus stays the authority on what enters it. When a rule is ambiguous, the instructor's answer beats any calculator's assumption, including this one's.
From current grade to target: the next question
Once you know where you stand, the follow up is usually what the final demands: that is a different calculation, solved by the final grade calculator, which takes your current grade, its weight and your target. The pair works best in sequence, this page for the standing, that page for the requirement, and both stay honest only if the weights come from the syllabus rather than memory.
Where this sits in WeSolve+
The calculator tells you the number; moving it is study. Upload the course PDF to WeSolve+ and it writes questions with reasoning, returns your misses on a schedule, and tracks weak topics across weeks. Related tools: GPA, semester grade and test score.
Sources used on this page
- Grading in education
- Academic grading in the United States
- Weighted arithmetic mean
- Grade point average
- Syllabus
- Final examination
- Homework
- Quiz
- Midterm exam
- Extra credit
- Percentage
- Gradebook
- Arithmetic mean
- Course (education)
- Academic term
- Transcript (education)
- Testing effect
- Spaced repetition
- Active recall
- Forgetting curve
- Distributed practice
- Metacognition
- Study skills
- Desirable difficulty
- Formative assessment
- Educational assessment
- Test anxiety
- Motivation
| Category | Weight | Score and contribution |
|---|---|---|
| Homework | 20 | 90 contributes 18,0 |
| Quizzes | 20 | 75 contributes 15,0 |
| Midterm | 25 | 68 contributes 17,0 |
| Final | 35 | 80 contributes 28,0 |
| Course grade | 100 | 78,0 |
| Same scores, final at 50 | 100 | Grade falls to 73,3 territory |
How do I calculate my course grade?
Multiply each category's score by its syllabus weight, sum, and divide by the weights entered. The tool does this instantly as you type.
What if a category is not graded yet?
Leave its row empty: the tool averages finished categories only, which is your honest standing on work graded so far.
My result differs from my instructor's gradebook. Why?
Almost always a local rule: a dropped lowest score, capped extra credit, or a weight that changed. The syllabus and instructor are the authority.
Do the weights have to total 100?
They usually do on a syllabus; the tool divides by the weights you enter, so partial sets still read correctly as a weighted average.
What do I need on the final to reach my target?
That is the companion question: the final grade calculator takes your current grade, its weight and the target, and returns the required score.
Is anything I type uploaded?
No. The calculator runs entirely in your browser; nothing is sent or stored.
Last updated: 2026-08-14