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Analyze Your Course Performance

A weighted GPA analyzer across five grading scales — with visual per-course breakdown, smart difficulty-aware recommendations, and highest-contribution insights that show which courses actually move your average.

Difficulty ratings are subjective. Rate how hard each course feels to you personally. A course you find hard may be easy for someone else — the recommendations adapt to your personal calibration.

Use the analyzer
5 grading scales%, 4.0, 5.0, 7.0 & 10.0
Smart insightsBest, weakest & highest-impact
Private by designAll analysis on-device

Course Performance Analyzer

Fill optional student details, add your courses with scores, credits and difficulty, and get weighted insights. Everything runs in your browser.

Personalization (optional)
Your courses
For each course enter its name, your grade/score in the scale you chose, credits or weight, and a difficulty rating from 1 (very easy) to 5 (very hard) to calibrate the recommendations.

What this analyzer does

From raw grades to actionable insights.

Weighted overall

Average across any of 5 grading scales.

Visual breakdown

Per-course bars colored by performance tier.

Smart insights

Best, weakest & highest-impact courses.

Difficulty-aware recs

Tailored to how hard each course feels.

Private by design. Nothing you enter leaves this page — every analysis runs in your browser.
Built and maintained by Bhavin Sheth
Last modified: Oct 13, 2026
How the analyzer works

Formulas, insights & a worked example

The math behind your overall score, how insights are identified, and a one-click example you can load straight into the tool.

Performance analysis

Weighted GPA + difficulty-aware insights

User case

A student has five courses with mixed scores and credits, including a 4-credit hard Chemistry course where they scored a B. Which course is actually dragging their GPA down, and where should they focus improvement energy?

How it's calculated

Overall = Σ(Score × Credits) ÷ Σ(Credits)
Insights: best = highest normalized %, weakest = lowest %, contribution = score × credits
Recommendations branch on difficulty (≥4 → tutor, ≤2 → check attendance)

Who uses it

  • Scholarship holders tracking minimum-GPA compliance
  • Strategic planners balancing next semester's load

Applications

Mid-semester course triage, advisor meetings, scholarship retention planning.

Five grading scales

What each performance tier means

The bands the visual bars and recommendations use across all supported grading scales.

TierPercentageUS 4.05.0 / 7.0 / 10.0Bar color
Excellent90 – 100%3.60 – 4.004.50+ / 6.30+ / 9.00+Emerald (tier-a)
Good80 – 89%3.00 – 3.594.00–4.49 / 5.60–6.29 / 8.00–8.99Indigo (tier-b)
Satisfactory70 – 79%2.00 – 2.993.50–3.99 / 4.90–5.59 / 7.00–7.99Gold (tier-c)
At riskBelow 70%Below 2.00Below 3.50 / 4.90 / 7.00Red (tier-d)
Honest by design

Clear, simple, transparent

What this course analyzer does, and what it doesn't — no fine print.

What this analyzer does

  • Computes a weighted overall score across any of five grading scales
  • Normalizes every score to a percentage for fair cross-course comparison
  • Identifies best, weakest and highest-contribution courses
  • Branches recommendations on your personal difficulty rating
  • Runs entirely in your browser — no data leaves the page

What this analyzer does not do

  • Does not replace your institution's official GPA calculation
  • Does not model grading curves or repeat-course forgiveness
  • Does not know your personal strengths — difficulty ratings are your input
  • Does not predict final grades from current partial scores
Performance tips

Turn insights into improvement

Six habits that turn this analyzer's insights into real semester-level progress.

Protect high-contribution courses

The Highest Contribution insight tells you which course actually moves your GPA. A 4-credit hard course where you improve from 75 to 85 raises your overall more than an A in a 1-credit lab. Defend study time there above all else.

Calibrate difficulty honestly

Rate difficulty based on how hard the course feels to you personally, not how hard it's rumored to be. The recommendation engine uses this to decide whether to suggest a tutor (hard course, low score) or check attendance (easy course, low score).

Re-run mid-semester

Don't wait until finals. Run this analyzer every three or four weeks. A course trending from tier-b to tier-c is your early warning — a small intervention now is easier than heroic exam-week recovery later.

Watch the easy-course trap

If your best grades are all in low-credit easy courses and your weakest is a high-credit hard course, the analyzer flags this explicitly. Don't let comfortable A's in electives mask a C that's dragging your real GPA down.

Use insights in advisor meetings

Bring the downloaded report to your advisor. The highest-contribution and area-for-improvement courses give them specific data — they can then recommend which courses to drop, add, or retake based on real weighted impact.

Compare semesters over time

Run the analyzer at the end of every term and save the report. Over time you'll see whether your average is drifting up or down, and whether difficulty ratings are staying consistent — the real signal is the trend, not a single snapshot.

Frequently asked questions

Quick answers about the analyzer, scales and recommendations.

Understanding the analyzer

Difficulty ratings let the recommendation engine give you smarter advice. Scoring low in a Very Hard course (difficulty 5) suggests you need a tutor or office hours, while scoring low in an Easy course (difficulty 1) suggests the problem is likely attendance or careless mistakes — completely different recovery strategies.
The Overall Performance score is a weighted average that mirrors how most institutions calculate GPA or aggregate percentage. However, official GPAs may use institutional-specific letter-to-point conversions, curves, or repeat-course forgiveness policies this tool cannot model. Use it as a planning guide, not a transcript substitute.
Highest Contribution identifies the single course adding the most points to your overall average — the one with the highest product of score × credits. A 4-credit course where you scored 85 impacts your GPA far more than a 1-credit lab where you scored 95. Protect your high-contribution courses above all.
Five scales: Percentage (0–100), US 4.0 GPA, 5.0 weighted scale (common for AP/IB high schools), 7.0 IB scale, and 10.0 CGPA scale (common in India). The tool normalizes your scores to a percentage for comparison while preserving your native scale in the output.

Using the analyzer

Yes. Select the 5.0 scale for US AP-weighted GPAs or the 7.0 scale for International Baccalaureate. Enter your actual AP/IB score and credits, and set difficulty to 4 or 5 — the tool will generate recommendations calibrated to advanced coursework.
That's the most urgent recovery scenario and the tool flags it clearly. The recommendation engine will recommend prioritizing that course above all others because each point of improvement there moves your overall average more than any other course could.
Each bar shows one course's normalized score (percentage of the scale maximum). Green bars are 90%+, blue 80–89%, gold 70–79%, and red below 70%. The bar length is not credit-weighted — use the Highest Contribution insight to see which courses actually move your GPA.
No. Every calculation runs entirely in your browser. Nothing you enter is sent to or stored on any server. Use the Download Analysis button if you want a local record for your academic portfolio or advisor meeting.

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