CGPA to percentage calculator
Every answer here comes with the working and the name of the rule that produced it — because the same CGPA gives a different percentage under a different rule.
Between 0 and 10
Not sure which one applies? See where each rule comes from.
A CGPA of 10 gives 95%, not 100%. That is not a rounding error. The 9.5 multiplier was derived from the average marks of past top scorers, which sat at about 95% — so the top grade point maps to 95%. The rule has no way to produce 100%.
This is the arithmetic of the rule you selected. Whether a particular admissions office accepts it is their decision, not ours — quote the rule your university published, with its date.
One CGPA, three legitimate answers
A CGPA of 8.0 is not one percentage. It is whichever percentage the rule you applied produces — and Indian universities do not apply the same rule. Below is the same input under three of them.
| Rule | Working | Result |
|---|---|---|
|
CGPA × 9.5 CBSE / general Indian rule |
8.0 × 9.5 | 76.0% |
|
(DGPA − 0.75) × 10 MAKAUT rule |
(8.0 − 0.75) × 10 | 72.5% |
|
CGPA × 10 Direct ten-times rule |
8.0 × 10 | 80.0% |
A spread of 7.5 percentage points on the same marksheet. That is why a calculator which prints only a number is not answering the question — the number is meaningless without the rule beside it.
What this calculator actually is
CGPA to percentage: the full table
Every rule on this site applied across the scale. Find your CGPA in the first column and read across to the rule your university uses.
| CGPA | CGPA × 9.5 | (DGPA − 0.75) × 10 | CGPA × 10 | (CGPA − 0.5) × 10 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10.0 | 95.0% | 92.5% | 100.0% | 95.0% |
| 9.5 | 90.3% | 87.5% | 95.0% | 90.0% |
| 9.0 | 85.5% | 82.5% | 90.0% | 85.0% |
| 8.5 | 80.8% | 77.5% | 85.0% | 80.0% |
| 8.0 | 76.0% | 72.5% | 80.0% | 75.0% |
| 7.5 | 71.3% | 67.5% | 75.0% | 70.0% |
| 7.0 | 66.5% | 62.5% | 70.0% | 65.0% |
| 6.5 | 61.8% | 57.5% | 65.0% | 60.0% |
| 6.0 | 57.0% | 52.5% | 60.0% | 55.0% |
| 5.5 | 52.3% | 47.5% | 55.0% | 50.0% |
| 5.0 | 47.5% | 42.5% | 50.0% | 45.0% |
Notice the top row: no rule on a 10-point scale reaches 100%. The highest figure any of them produces for a perfect CGPA is 100.0% under the direct ten-times rule, and 95.0% under the far more common CBSE rule.
Which division does a percentage fall into?
- 75%+ Distinction
- 60%+ First Class
- 50%+ Second Class
- 40%+ Third Class
- below Below passing range
These boundaries are the common Indian convention, not a rule we can hold your university to. Several set their own — check your ordinances before writing "First Class" on an application.
Other ways to get the same number
| Approach | Who it suits | The catch |
|---|---|---|
| Do it by hand | You already know which rule your university uses | The multiplication is trivial; picking the right rule is the part that goes wrong, and doing it by hand does not help with that |
| Ask your examination cell | You need a number an admissions office will not argue with | Slow, and many universities will only issue a conversion certificate on request — but this is the only answer that is authoritative |
| A single-number calculator | You want a figure and nothing else | The three sites currently ranking for this give three different answers for the same input and none of them says which rule it applied |
| This calculator | You want the number together with the rule that produced it, so you can check it | For most universities we could not confirm the published rule, and the page says so rather than guessing |
When this calculator is the wrong tool
Being straight about the limits: in these cases another route is the better one.
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An admissions office asked for an official conversion certificate
A certificate has to come from the university that issued the grades. Nothing generated on a website can substitute for it, whatever the site claims.
What to do: Apply to your examination cell. Use this page to know what number to expect and which rule they will apply.
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Your university publishes a lookup table, not a formula
Some tables are not a straight line: they map grade bands to percentage bands, and no single multiplier reproduces them.
What to do: Read the number off the table. MAKAUT is the case we checked — there a straight line does fit all five published rows, and that page shows both.
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You have marks out of a total, not a CGPA
That is a different calculation entirely — no grade scale is involved, only a division.
What to do: Use the marks percentage calculator instead.
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You are converting an Indian CGPA for a foreign university
Foreign admissions offices and credential evaluators usually apply their own conversion, and it often ignores whatever your university published.
What to do: Send the transcript and the grading scheme printed on its back. Let them convert it; a self-converted percentage carries no weight there.
The words on your marksheet
- CGPA
- Cumulative Grade Point Average — the grade point average across every semester completed so far. In India it is normally on a 10-point scale.
- SGPA
- Semester Grade Point Average — the same figure for one semester only. A CGPA is built from the semester SGPAs.
- DGPA
- Degree Grade Point Average — the grade point average for a whole programme. Some universities, MAKAUT among them, define their conversion on DGPA rather than CGPA, and the two are not always the same number.
- Grade point
- The number attached to a letter grade in a subject, usually 0 to 10. Grade points are averaged; the letters themselves are not.
- Credit
- The weight of a subject. Where an average is credit-weighted, a four-credit subject moves the result twice as much as a two-credit one.
- Division
- The classification attached to a percentage — Distinction, First Class, Second Class. The boundaries are conventional and each institution may set its own.
- The 9.5 multiplier
- The CBSE conversion factor. It was derived from the average marks of past top scorers, which sat near 95%, so grade point 10 maps to 95% and not to 100%.