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How to Calculate FGPA at UG
The University of Ghana's Final Grade Point Average is a two-step calculation, and the second step is the one most guides bury: your Level 300 and Level 400 GPAs count double. Here is the method from §9.31 of the Regulations for Junior Members, worked in full.
The method: (1) each level's GPA = its courses' grade points × credits, summed, ÷ the level's credits. (2) FGPA = (1×L100 + 1×L200 + 2×L300 + 2×L400) ÷ 6.
Step 1 — one level, worked (watch the failed course)
Level 100: UGRC 110 (3 credits, 82 → A, 4.0 → 12.0 points-of-credit), MATH 121 (3, 77 → B+, 3.5 → 10.5), STAT 111 (3, 68 → C+, 2.5 → 7.5), ECON 101 (3, 71 → B, 3.0 → 9.0), PHIL 101 (2, 58 → D+, 1.5 → 3.0), SOCI 101 (2, 47 → E, 0.5 → 1.0). Total 43.0 over 16 credits → GPA 2.69.
The E is doing quiet damage: leave it out — the most common hand-calculation error — and the same level reads 42.0 ÷ 14 = 3.00. Failure grades are grades of record; they count.
Step 2 — the four levels, weighted
Level GPAs: 3.80, 3.60, 2.40, 2.60. FGPA = (3.80 + 3.60 + 2×2.40 + 2×2.60) ÷ 6 = (3.80 + 3.60 + 4.80 + 5.20) ÷ 6 = 17.40 ÷ 6 = 2.90 → Second Class Lower.
The plain average of the same four GPAs is 3.10 — Second Class Upper. This is not a rounding difference; the double weighting moves the class. A strong Level 100 cannot rescue a weak Level 300 one-for-one, and a strong final year counts twice as much as your first. Plan accordingly: the planner uses these weights when it works backwards from a target.
Three rules that finish the method
- Repeats (§9.31(c)): a repeated course enters once, at the weighted average of all its attempts — not the best, not the latest.
- Audited courses (§9.21(d)): AUDI is not taken into account in the FGPA at all.
- CGPA ≠ FGPA: the standing CGPA counts every credit equally (total grade points ÷ total credits). It governs progression; the FGPA — weighted — is what classifies the degree. The University's own advice pages make the same distinction: a student short-changed by a graduating list had read the CGPA where the FGPA decides.