grade point

1. 1.

   a numerical value assigned to a letter grade received in a course taken at a college or university multiplied by the number of credit hours awarded for the course

   Broadermark

Questions about grade point

What does grade point mean?

grade point means "a numerical value assigned to a letter grade received in a course taken at a college or university multiplied by the number of credit hours awarded for the course".

Is grade point a common word?

grade point is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.