What Is GPA In South Africa

What is GPA In South Africa?

The GPA (Grade Point Average) is a lot like the South African APS system that universities use, and it attempts to solve this problem

each curriculum effectively has a reference table that is used to convert your high school results to the ‘currency’ of GPA.

How do I calculate GPA in South Africa?

Start with your Grade 9 year. Add up all your final subject marks according to the above scale.

Divide that number by how many Grade 9 subjects you took.

Repeat the above steps for your Grades 10 – 12 years.

Add up the 4 totals from Grade 9 – Grade 12.

Divide it by 4 and that is your GPA. ​​

What is a 4.0 GPA equivalent to in South Africa?

I’m assuming that you’re referring to a South African high school transcript and wanting to convert it to the GPA on US standards.

According to what the Education official has told me, South African colleges see anything above an average of 80% from a South African high school as the equivalent of a 4.0 GPA.

Is a GPA of 2.50 good?

Good” is always relative — and it largely depends on your ambitions post-high school. The average GPA for graduating high school students is 3.0, which 2.5 falls below. 

A 2.5 means that you received a C-average for academic performance, equally out to a percentile between 73% and 76%.