In short: GPA = (CGPA ÷ 10) × 4, so a 8.0 CGPA is a 3.2 GPA. No university treats that as an official conversion, and the credential evaluators who do produce an official one work from your individual course grades rather than from your CGPA.
How do you convert CGPA to GPA?
Divide your CGPA by 10, then multiply by 4. A 10-point CGPA of 8.0 becomes 3.20 on the 4.0 scale. It's a rescaling rather than an official conversion, so treat the answer as an estimate and check what your target institution actually accepts before you report it.
- Check your scale. This conversion assumes a 10-point CGPA. If your marksheet already reports out of 4, your CGPA is your GPA and nothing needs converting.
- Divide by 10, multiply by 4. A CGPA of 8.0 gives (8.0 ÷ 10) × 4 = 3.2.
- Round to two decimals and label the scale. Write "3.20 / 4.0", not a bare number. A GPA without its scale is ambiguous, and on a 5.0 scale the same figure would mean something quite different.
That is the whole calculation. The rest of this page is about the part students actually get wrong, which is how much weight the result can carry.
CGPA to GPA conversion table
Every CGPA from 5.0 to 10.0 in 0.1 steps, with the rough US letter grade each band corresponds to.
| CGPA | GPA (4.0 scale) | Grade class |
|---|---|---|
| 10 | 4 | A |
| 9.9 | 3.96 | A |
| 9.8 | 3.92 | A |
| 9.7 | 3.88 | A |
| 9.6 | 3.84 | A |
| 9.5 | 3.8 | A |
| 9.4 | 3.76 | A |
| 9.3 | 3.72 | A |
| 9.2 | 3.68 | A |
| 9.1 | 3.64 | A |
| 9 | 3.6 | A |
| 8.9 | 3.56 | B |
| 8.8 | 3.52 | B |
| 8.7 | 3.48 | B |
| 8.6 | 3.44 | B |
| 8.5 | 3.4 | B |
| 8.4 | 3.36 | B |
| 8.3 | 3.32 | B |
| 8.2 | 3.28 | B |
| 8.1 | 3.24 | B |
| 8 | 3.2 | B |
| 7.9 | 3.16 | C |
| 7.8 | 3.12 | C |
| 7.7 | 3.08 | C |
| 7.6 | 3.04 | C |
| 7.5 | 3 | C |
| 7.4 | 2.96 | C |
| 7.3 | 2.92 | C |
| 7.2 | 2.88 | C |
| 7.1 | 2.84 | C |
| 7 | 2.8 | C |
| 6.9 | 2.76 | D |
| 6.8 | 2.72 | D |
| 6.7 | 2.68 | D |
| 6.6 | 2.64 | D |
| 6.5 | 2.6 | D |
| 6.4 | 2.56 | D |
| 6.3 | 2.52 | D |
| 6.2 | 2.48 | D |
| 6.1 | 2.44 | D |
| 6 | 2.4 | D |
| 5.9 | 2.36 | F |
| 5.8 | 2.32 | F |
| 5.7 | 2.28 | F |
| 5.6 | 2.24 | F |
| 5.5 | 2.2 | F |
| 5.4 | 2.16 | F |
| 5.3 | 2.12 | F |
| 5.2 | 2.08 | F |
| 5.1 | 2.04 | F |
| 5 | 2 | F |
The values people look up most
- 8 CGPA to GPA
- 3.20 on the 4.0 scale, roughly a B average in US letter terms.
- 7.5 CGPA to GPA
- 3.00 on the 4.0 scale, roughly a C average in US letter terms.
- 8.5 CGPA to GPA
- 3.40 on the 4.0 scale, roughly a B average in US letter terms.
- 7 CGPA to GPA
- 2.80 on the 4.0 scale, roughly a C average in US letter terms.
- 9 CGPA to GPA
- 3.60 on the 4.0 scale, roughly a A average in US letter terms.
- 8.2 CGPA to GPA
- 3.28 on the 4.0 scale, roughly a B average in US letter terms.
- 6.5 CGPA to GPA
- 2.60 on the 4.0 scale, roughly a D average in US letter terms.
- 8.3 CGPA to GPA
- 3.32 on the 4.0 scale, roughly a B average in US letter terms.
- 8.4 CGPA to GPA
- 3.36 on the 4.0 scale, roughly a B average in US letter terms.
- 8.6 CGPA to GPA
- 3.44 on the 4.0 scale, roughly a B average in US letter terms.
Why is there no official CGPA to GPA formula?
Dividing by 10 and multiplying by 4 is a rescaling, not a recalculation. It stretches one range onto another and assumes the two scales mean the same thing at every point, which they do not. A 10-point CGPA is itself an average of banded grade points, so the conversion averages an average.
The clearest evidence that no single answer exists is that two perfectly defensible routes disagree. You can rescale the CGPA directly, or you can convert it to a percentage first (most Indian universities publish one using the AICTE ×9.5 rule) and rescale that percentage onto 4.0 instead:
| CGPA | Direct (÷10 × 4) | As a percentage | Via the percentage | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6.5 | 2.60 | 61.75% | 2.47 | 0.13 |
| 7.5 | 3.00 | 71.25% | 2.85 | 0.15 |
| 8.0 | 3.20 | 76% | 3.04 | 0.16 |
| 9.0 | 3.60 | 85.5% | 3.42 | 0.18 |
| 10.0 | 4.00 | 95% | 3.80 | 0.20 |
At 8.0 CGPA the two routes give 3.20 and 3.04, a gap of 0.16. The gap widens as your score rises, which is the compression problem in miniature: the direct route hands out a 4.0 for a perfect 10, while the percentage route treats a perfect 10 as 95% and returns 3.8.
Neither is wrong. That is the point. Pick one, say which one you used, and keep the percentage from your marksheet close by so a reader can check.
What does WES actually do, and why is ×0.38 wrong?
WES converts your transcript course by course under its own grading scale. It never applies a single multiplier to a CGPA, which is why the popular ×0.38 shortcut is mislabelled. That number is really the percentage route written as one step, not anything WES publishes.
Several conversion sites publish CGPA × 0.38 and label it the WES method. The label is wrong. The arithmetic has an innocent explanation: 0.38 is exactly 9.5 × 4 ÷ 100, so multiplying by it is the percentage route above, written as one step. On an 8.0 CGPA it returns 3.04.
World Education Services does not apply any multiplier to a CGPA. Its free iGPA calculator asks for each course, its home credit and its home grade, and converts them one at a time. Its paid course-by-course evaluation goes further, listing a US semester credit and grade equivalent for every course on your transcript before it computes a GPA at all. One consequence catches applicants out: the cheaper document-by-document evaluation does not include a GPA, so ordering the wrong report leaves you without the number you needed.
This matters because the two approaches can disagree. An evaluation built from your course list can land either side of a figure rescaled from your CGPA, and where an institution has asked for an evaluation, the evaluation is the document it acts on. Order it early, since evaluations take weeks and carry a fee.
What does each application actually ask for?
Check which unit the form wants before you convert anything. A 4.0-scale GPA is the right answer in some systems and the wrong one in others, and a few applications would rather see your original CGPA with its scale named than any converted figure at all. The table below sorts it by destination.
| Where you are applying | Usually asks for | Watch out for |
|---|---|---|
| US universities (Common App and portals) | A 4.0-scale GPA, self-reported | Your transcript is read alongside it, so an inflated conversion helps nobody |
| WES or another credential evaluator | Your transcript, course by course | The evaluator produces its own GPA; yours is not used |
| UK universities | Percentage or degree class | A GPA is often the wrong unit entirely |
| Germany | Percentage, run through the modified Bavarian formula | A 4.0-scale GPA is not the input the formula expects |
| Canada and Australia | GPA, but the scale varies (4.0, 4.3, 7.0) | Confirm the scale before converting anything |
Admission thresholds are set programme by programme and change from year to year, so treat any single cut-off you read online as unverified until you find it on the department's own page.
How do you convert GPA back to CGPA?
Reverse the arithmetic: CGPA = (GPA ÷ 4) × 10, so a 3.2 GPA returns 8.0 CGPA. Switch the calculator at the top of this page to the GPA → CGPA tab and enter your GPA. The same caution applies in this direction, with one addition: a GPA earned on a 4.3, 5.0 or 7.0 scale cannot be treated as a 4.0-scale figure, so confirm the scale before you convert anything.
Related calculators
If you hold a percentage rather than a CGPA, the percentage to GPA calculator converts it on the 4.0, 5.0 and 10-point scales. To work out the CGPA in the first place, use the SGPA to CGPA calculator, and for the percentage your own university publishes, the CGPA to percentage calculator covers every major formula. If you are unsure which number your transcript is showing, start with CGPA vs SGPA vs GPA.
Not the calculator you need?
All four GPA calculators on this site answer a different question. The one you want depends on what you are starting from:
- If you have a list of courses, each with credits and a letter grade, use the GPA calculator for course grades and credits.
- If you have a percentage, use the percentage to GPA calculator.
- If you have several semesters, each with its own GPA and credit total, use the multi-semester CGPA calculator with GPA.