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Find the final exam score you need to reach your target overall grade in a course.
Exam Score Needed Calculator solves the one question every student asks before finals: what is the minimum I can score and still hit my target? It takes the grade you carry in from assignments and mid-terms, the percentage weight of the final paper, and your target overall grade, then returns the exact score required — in percent and in raw marks. It also lists the score needed for every grade band and shows what your overall grade would be at a range of possible exam scores.
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Enter the values you already know.
Fine-tune the options to match your scenario.
Read the result and use it in your planning or reporting.
If even a perfect paper falls short, the tool says 'not reachable' instead of printing a score above 100%.
See the score needed for A, B, C, D and a bare pass in a single view, not one calculation at a time.
Scan the overall grade you would land on at 40%, 60%, 80% or a perfect paper before you decide how hard to push.
Use needed = (target - current x (1 - weight)) / weight, where weight is the final's share as a decimal. With a 72% current grade, a 40% weight and an 80% target, you need (80 - 72 x 0.6) / 0.4 = 92%.
It is your weighted average across everything graded so far — assignments, quizzes and mid-terms — expressed as a percentage of the marks available in those components, not of the whole course.
It means your target is already locked in: even a zero on the final leaves you at or above it. The tool displays 0% and flags the target as already secured.
No. Many syllabi require a separate minimum in the end-semester paper regardless of internal marks, so check your course handbook before treating a low required score as safe.
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