Marks are in, results day is close, and one question keeps looping in your head: what class am I actually heading for? This free uni grade calculator UK students can use answers it in a few taps. Add your modules, pick how your university weights each year, press Calculate, and you get your weighted average, your likely degree class and the gap to the next class up.

People look for this tool under different names. Some type "degree classification calculator", others "UK degree calculator" or "university grade calculator", and plenty just want a quick degree grade calculator UK that does not ask them to sign up first. It is the same job whatever you call it. The calculator above tries to do that job properly, rather than multiplying a few numbers and hoping for the best.

This guide has two halves. The first shows you how to use the calculator, feature by feature. The second explains the rules behind it: year weighting, borderline cases, best-credits rules, rounding and US GPA. Read the second half if you want to know why you get the number you do, or if your result does not match what your university told you.

What this uni grade calculator UK does

There are three tabs across the top of the tool. Each one answers a different question.

Everything runs in your browser. Your marks are saved on your own device so they are still there when you come back, and they are not sent to a server. If you want to see the tool in action before typing your own marks, press Try example marks (it shows while the tool is empty).

How to use this calculator

Set aside two minutes and have your module marks to hand. Marks go in as percentages from 0 to 100. If your portal only shows letter grades, ask your department for the numerical marks, because classification is normally worked out from those.

1Choose your year weighting

At the top of the Calculator tab you will see four buttons: 33 / 67, 40 / 60, 50 / 50 and Custom. They control how much each year counts towards your final mark. On a normal three-year degree Year 1 does not count, so the split is between Year 2 and your final year.

• 33 / 67 is the exact 1 : 2 ratio. Year 2 counts 33.33% and your final year 66.67%. Leeds and Edinburgh both describe their weighting as 1:2.
• 40 / 60 and 50 / 50 are the other two splits you will meet most often.
• Custom lets you type the exact share for Year 2, for example 25 or 35. The final year takes whatever is left. You can also drag the small handle on the coloured bar.

Your weighting is written in your programme handbook, usually under "classification", "award" or "assessment regulations". If it says 33% and 67% literally, choose Custom and type 33 rather than using the 33 / 67 button.

2Enter your modules

Pick a year using the two cards under the weighting bar. Each card shows that year's average and a credit tracker such as 120/120. Then fill in one row per module:

A few habits make the result more trustworthy:

• Always enter credits. A 40-credit dissertation should count twice as much as a 20-credit module. If you leave every credit box in a year blank, the calculator averages that year's modules equally. If you type credits for one marked module, it needs them for all of them and will tell you which year to fix.
• Add unfinished modules too. Type the credits and leave the mark blank. The module is treated as still to come, which is exactly what the Target tab needs.
• Add or remove rows with the Add module button, or press Enter in the credits box of the last row. The small cross removes a row.
• Split a module into coursework and exam. Tap the small lines icon on the row. Two rows appear, Coursework and Exam, each with a Weight % and a Mark %. Rename them, add more with "+ Add assessment", and the module mark fills in by itself from the weights. If only the coursework is marked so far, the calculator uses the marks you have and adds a note that the module is only partly marked.

3Only know a year average?

Above the module list there is a switch labelled Enter by: Modules | Year average. Choose Year average and the list is replaced by one big box. Type the average your university gave you for that year, for instance 63.5, and a small chip shows which class that average sits in. The year then counts as one full 120-credit block.

Each year has its own switch, so you can use a year average for Year 2 and full modules for Year 3. Modules you entered earlier are kept, just ignored while the switch is on. One thing to know: rules that look at individual modules, such as the borderline test, cannot see inside a year average, so the calculator treats that year as a single mark and says so in the result.

4Calculate and read your result

Nothing appears until you press Calculate result. That is deliberate, so the numbers do not jump around while you are still typing. On a phone the result fills the screen and the arrow at the top takes you back to your modules. On a computer it opens beside them.

If you change a mark after calculating, the result dims and the pill at the top switches to "Recalculate", so you never read an out-of-date number by accident. If a year with a weighting has no marks yet, the heading changes from "Predicted class" to "Class so far". The Reset button clears your entries. It asks you to tap twice, so a slip of the thumb does not wipe your work.

A worked example you can check. These are the marks that Try example marks loads. Enter them (or press the button), calculate, and you should see 66.50%, upper second, 3.50 points from a First.

5Course settings explained

Tap the sliders icon next to the weighting buttons to open Course settings. A small orange dot on the icon means at least one rule is switched on. Most students never need to open it, but if your university does anything unusual, this is where you tell the calculator.

The borderline rule has five tests to choose from, because universities do not agree on one. They are explained with an example in the borderline section below.

6The Target tab: what do I need for a 2:1 or a First?

This tab works backwards. Instead of asking what class your marks give you, it asks what marks you still need. It reads the modules from the Calculator tab, so fill those in first, with credits for every module and a blank mark for anything unfinished.

1. Type a target, or tap First 70, 2:1 60, 2:2 50 or Third 40.
2. Check the Your marks so far card. It shows each year's average, how many credits are marked, which modules are still to come and your weighting. If something looks wrong here, fix it on the Calculator tab.
3. Press Check my target.

The result gives you the average you need across everything still to come, how much of your degree is already marked, your average so far and your best possible result if you scored 100% on the rest. It also says plainly when the target is already secured, or when even full marks on the remaining work would not reach it. If every module is already marked, it simply tells you whether your final average meets the target. A year you have not started counts as 120 credits still to come.

Two honest limits: the Target tab uses the straight weighted average, so borderline and best-credits rules are not applied to it. If "Round to a whole mark first" is on, a First target of 70 is treated as 69.5.

7The US GPA tab

Type a UK mark, drag the slider, or tap Use my calculator mark to bring in your result from the Calculator tab. A scale shows where the mark sits between 0 and 4.0. Underneath, a small table lists each UK class with its GPA range, and tapping a row tries a typical mark for that class. Press Convert to GPA and you get an estimate to one decimal place, the published range for your class and how far you are from the next class up. Marks under 40 show "N/A", because there is no honours class to convert. The GPA section below explains why this is an estimate and not an official figure.

How UK degree classification works

Most UK bachelor's degrees are awarded with honours, and the honours are split into four classes. The boundaries below are the conventional ones. Universities publish their own regulations, but the great majority follow this pattern.

You will also see these written as First or I, 2i or II-1 (a "two-one"), 2ii or II-2 (a "two-two") and Third or III.

Below 40% you do not get an honours degree. Some universities award an ordinary or pass degree for marks just under the line. Swansea, for instance, lists 35% to 39.99% as a pass degree.

Your final average is built in two layers, and any decent degree classification calculator, this one included, follows the same order.

Take the example marks from earlier. Year 2 has six equal modules, so its average is simply (68 + 62 + 58 + 71 + 64 + 60) ÷ 6 = 63.83. Year 3 has a 40-credit dissertation, so the credits matter: (72 × 40 + 66 × 20 + 69 × 20 + 61 × 20 + 67 × 20) ÷ 120 = 67.83. With the 1:2 weighting the two years combine like this:

Two details are easy to miss. First, the class is decided on the unrounded average, so 69.99 is a 2:1, not a First, unless your university rounds. Second, Year 1 usually does not count at all. It is normally a pass-or-progress year, and often the weighting starts in Year 2.

Year weighting explained (40/60, 33/67 and others)

Year weighting is the single biggest setting in any UK degree calculator, and the one people most often get wrong. Here are the patterns you are likely to meet, with the matching button in the calculator.

Does the choice really matter? Yes. Imagine a student with a Year 2 average of 58 and a final-year average of 74. Same marks, four different weightings:

That is why the buttons at the top of the calculator come first. Before you trust any percentage, check which of these your course uses.

What do I need to get a 2:1 or a First?

This is the question behind most searches for a final year grade calculator. If your remaining work is one whole year, the sum is short:

Say your Year 2 average is 64 and your course uses the 1:2 weighting. For a First you need (70 − 64 × 0.3333) ÷ 0.6667 = 73 across the whole final year. For a 2:1 you need 58. Change the weighting and the answer moves:

The figures are rounded up, so you are never a hair short. Notice the pattern: the more weight your final year carries, the less you need for a First, because your final year is doing more of the work.

Real life is messier than one clean year. You may have half of Year 3 marked and half to come, or a dissertation still outstanding. Rather than juggle that by hand, use the Target tab. It works out what you need on all remaining credits, so the answer to "what do I need to get a first" stays correct as marks come in. If the required average is above 100%, it says so instead of hiding it. That is unwelcome news, but better to know it in March than in June.

Borderline degree classification explained

Suppose your final average is 68.4. You are 1.6 points short of a First. Many universities have a borderline rule for exactly this situation. The usual shape is a window just below each boundary, typically two percentage points, and a test to see whether you deserve the higher class. Edinburgh's wording is clear: the borderline runs from two points below the boundary up to the boundary itself, so 58.00% to 59.99% for a 2:1.

What differs between universities is the test. Here are five real examples of the kinds of test in use, and the option in the calculator that matches each.

Leeds Beckett's own factsheet shows how a test works in practice. A student with a final average of 68 and 60 of the 120 final-level credits in the First band is upgraded. A student on 59 with only 40 credits in the 2:1 band is not.

The tests really do give different answers, so the option you pick matters. Take one student: Year 2 average 66 (120 credits), and in Year 3 a 72 in a 60-credit module and a 66 in another 60-credit module. On a 1:2 weighting that is a final average of exactly 68.00. With a 2-point window and 50% needed, here is what each test says:

To use it, open Course settings, switch on Borderline rule, set the window in points, the share of credits needed and the test. If the result changes, a note tells you the rule moved you up. If it does not, the note shows how close you were.

The "best 100 credits" rule

Not every university counts every module. Some count only your strongest credits at each level, so one weak module cannot drag the whole year down. Leeds Beckett's factsheet refers to a "Best 100" approach for honours degrees, meaning the best 100 of the 120 credits at a level. UWE Bristol's formula for students who started before August 2022 also counted just 100 credits at each of the two levels.

Here is how much difference it can make. A year of six 20-credit modules with marks of 52, 58, 61, 64, 66 and 70:

With the best 100, the 52 is left out. That is almost two points, from a single rule. To use it, open Course settings, switch on Count best credits only and enter the number of credits your university counts, usually 100. The calculator picks your highest marks first. If the last module would go over the limit, only the part that fits is counted, which is how credit-based rules work when module sizes differ. For borderline tests it still looks at all of your marked credits, as Leeds Beckett's wording describes.

Rounding rules

Rounding sounds trivial until it decides your class. Universities handle it in three ways:

• No rounding. The class is set on the exact average. Swansea's boundaries are written with decimals, such as 60 to 69.99, and Leeds Beckett applies its borderline rule to the mark before it is rounded for display.
• Round to a whole number. A Liverpool engineering handbook states that the average is expressed as an integer, so 69.5 becomes 70.
• Truncate. Oxford Brookes says that averages for its integrated master's degrees are truncated, not rounded up.

Try it with an average of exactly 69.5. With rounding off it is a 2:1. With Round to a whole mark first switched on it becomes a First. If your regulations say nothing about rounding, leave the switch off. That is the cautious choice and it never flatters you.

UK grade to US GPA

If you are applying to study or work in the US, you may be asked for a GPA. The UK does not use one, so any UK grade to GPA conversion is an estimate: there is no official national table. Universities and credential evaluators each have their own, and published ranges differ a little. Some end a 2:2 at 3.0, others at 3.3. What most agree on is the rough shape:

The calculator turns that into a single estimate by placing your mark on a straight line inside your class's range. A 2:1 to GPA conversion therefore gives 3.3 at 60% and 3.7 at the very top of the band, with everything else in between. A First runs from 3.7 at 70% up to 4.0 at 80%, and a Third is shown as about 2.0. It is a sensible estimate, but it is this tool's estimate, not an official figure.

For an application, always check what the target university or programme actually asks for. Many want your classification and transcript as they are, and a formal evaluation can differ from any online estimate.

Common mistakes to avoid

• Counting Year 1 when it does not count. Leave "Count Year 1" off unless your handbook clearly says otherwise.
• Typing marks without credits. A 10-credit module should not weigh as much as a 40-credit dissertation.
• Treating 33 / 67 and 40 / 60 as interchangeable. The section on year weighting shows how far apart they can land.
• Assuming a borderline uplift is guaranteed. Rules and tests vary, so check yours.
• Rounding when your university does not. A rounded 69.5 that your university treats as a 2:1 is a painful surprise.
• Entering a raw resit mark. Many universities cap resit marks at the pass mark, which is 40% for undergraduates. Liverpool's engineering handbook, for example, caps Year 2 resit marks at 40%. Type the capped mark, because the calculator does not cap it for you.
• Forgetting unfinished modules. Enter the credits and leave the mark blank so the Target tab knows how much is left.

What the calculator cannot do

A degree classification calculator is only as good as the rules it knows, and it is better to say where those end.

• Taught master's degrees. Distinction, Merit and Pass are not covered. Integrated master's degrees that are classified like bachelor's degrees are.
• Unusual weighting systems. Some universities use banded weightings. Swansea's revised system, for one, counts the best 80 credits of the final year three times. Those cannot be reproduced with year weights.
• Bespoke classification methods and professional rules. Some universities, including Oxford and Cambridge, use their own methods, and courses with professional-body requirements can add extra conditions.
• Exam board judgement. Extenuating circumstances and discretionary decisions are outside any calculator.

Even universities that publish their own calculators say the same thing. Leeds describes its classification calculators as guidance only, with marks and classifications confirmed by the awarding board. Treat this university grade calculator the same way: a strong estimate, not a certificate.

Frequently asked questions

What is a uni grade calculator UK and how does it work?

It is a tool that turns your module marks into a likely degree class. It multiplies each mark by its credits to get a year average, combines the years using your university's weighting, and compares the result with the class boundaries: 70 for a First, 60 for a 2:1, 50 for a 2:2 and 40 for a Third.

What percentage is a first, a 2:1, a 2:2 and a third?

The usual boundaries are 70% and above for a First, 60% to 69.99% for a 2:1, 50% to 59.99% for a 2:2 and 40% to 49.99% for a Third. That is the answer to the common question about first class honours percentage, and to what percentage is a 2:1. Individual universities publish their own regulations, but nearly all follow this pattern.

Does first year count towards my degree?

On most courses it does not. Year 1 is normally a pass-or-progress year, and the classification is built from Year 2 and your final year. A few courses do count it, often with a small weight, so check your handbook. The calculator has a Count Year 1 switch for that case.

How do I work out what I need for a 2:1?

Use the Target tab. Enter your marks on the Calculator tab, tap 2:1 60 on the Target tab and press Check my target. It shows the average you need across all remaining credits. By hand, the sum is (60 − your current average × its share) ÷ the share still to come, which is what this final year grade calculator does for you. Enter 70 instead of 60 and you have the answer to what do I need to get a first.

What is a borderline degree classification?

It is the zone just under a class boundary, usually two percentage points wide. If your average lands there, many universities apply a test, such as whether half your credits are already in the higher class, and may move you up. The test differs between universities, so the calculator offers five, and you should read the one in your own regulations.

How does the best 100 credits rule work?

Some universities count only your best 100 of the 120 credits at a level. Your highest marks are counted first and the weakest module is left out, which usually lifts your year average. Switch on Count best credits only in Course settings and enter 100 to see the effect.

Is 69.5% a first?

It depends on whether your university rounds. With no rounding, 69.5 is a 2:1. Where averages are rounded to a whole number, 69.5 becomes 70 and is a First. The calculator leaves rounding off by default and has a Round to a whole mark first switch for universities that do it.

How accurate is this UK degree calculator?

The maths is exact for the rules it supports, and it has been checked against worked examples from university regulations and against a second independent calculation. It cannot know your university's private rules, so the result is a strong estimate rather than an official one. Compare it with your university's own classification guidance when you can.

Can I use it with a placement year or an integrated master's?

Yes. Open Course settings and choose With a placement year, which leaves the placement year out, or Integrated master's, which counts Years 2, 3 and 4 with an editable 20 / 40 / 40 weighting. If your university counts a placement year, check the handbook, because the calculator leaves it out.

What GPA is a 2:1?

Published conversions put a 2:1 at roughly 3.3 to 3.7 on the US 4.0 scale. This calculator's 2:1 to GPA estimate is 3.3 at 60% rising to 3.7 at the top of the band, so 65% shows about 3.5. There is no official conversion, so treat it as an estimate.

Does it work for a taught master's with Distinction, Merit and Pass?

No. It is built for honours classification: First, 2:1, 2:2 and Third, including integrated master's degrees that are classified that way. Distinction, Merit and Pass classifications for taught master's degrees are not supported.

Can I use it if I only know my year average?

Yes. On the Calculator tab, switch Enter by to Year average for that year and type the average. It counts as one full 120-credit year. Rules that need module-level marks, such as the borderline test, treat it as a single mark, and the result says so.

Are my marks saved or sent anywhere?

Your marks are stored in your own browser so you can come back to them, and they are not sent to a server. Clear all marks in Course settings removes them. If you use a shared computer, clear them when you finish.

Why does my result not match my university's figure?

The usual causes are the weighting, a credit typed wrongly, a resit mark that should have been capped, a rounding rule, a best-credits rule or a borderline test. Check each of those against your regulations. If your university uses an unusual method, such as banded weightings, no general calculator will match it exactly.

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Sources

Rules were checked against these published regulations and guides in September 2026. Universities update their regulations, so always use the current version for your own course.

• University of Leeds: how your degree is classified (1:2 and 1:2:2 weighting, 0.5 borderline, guidance-only calculators)
• Leeds Beckett: borderline classification upgrade rule factsheet (2% window, 50% of final-level credits, "Best 100")
• Leeds Beckett: progression and award factsheet (Level 5 weighting)
• University of Edinburgh: CAHSS undergraduate borderline rules
• University of Edinburgh, Biological Sciences: degree classification (1:2 weighting)
• Swansea University: classification of honours degrees (bands, preponderance and exit velocity)
• University of Surrey: borderline classifications
• UWE Bristol: degree classifications
• Sheffield Students' Union: degree classification (1:2:2 integrated master's)
• Oxford Brookes: integrated master's regulations (truncated averages)
• University of Liverpool: engineering handbook, classification of degrees (integer average, resit cap)
• British undergraduate degree classification (Wikipedia) (conventional boundaries)

Disclaimer. This guide and the calculator give estimates for guidance only. Your university's regulations and its examination board decide your final classification, and US GPA figures here are estimates, not official evaluations. Last checked: September 2026.