grade point average

1. 1.

   a measure of a student's academic achievement at a college or university; calculated by dividing the total number of grade points received by the total number attempted

   SynonymsGPA

   Broaderstandard

Questions about grade point average

What does grade point average mean?

grade point average means "a measure of a student's academic achievement at a college or university; calculated by dividing the total number of grade points received by the total number attempted".

What is another word for grade point average?

Close synonyms include GPA. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is grade point average a common word?

grade point average 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.