# Plus-Minus Grading System

**Source**: https://gradschool.utexas.edu/navigating/policies/academic/grades/plus-minus
**Parent**: https://gradschool.utexas.edu/navigating/policies/academic/grades

Graduate faculty at The University of Texas at Austin may elect to use the plus-minus grading system.

Plus-minus grades are recorded only for graduate courses taken by graduate students. Decimal equivalents are assigned as follows:

### A 4.00

### A- 3.67

### B+ 3.33

### B 3.0

### B- 2.67

### C+ 2.33

### C 2.00

### C- 1.67

### D+ 1.33

### D 1.00

### D- 0.67

### F 0.00

The grade-point average (GPA) is calculated by dividing the number of hours taken by the number of grade points received. For example, a student who earns an A in ARH 396L and a B in ECO 382L earns 12 grade points for the A and 9 grade points for the B. Adding those points together and dividing by the total number of semester hours (21 points divided by six hours) results in a GPA of 3.5.