WAM target calculator
Calculate a credit-weighted percentage average and the future marks needed for a target WAM. Use the courses and credit units your university counts.
How it works
A worked example
A 70% mark in a six-unit course and an 80% mark in another six-unit course give a 75% WAM. With 12 more counted units, an 80% target needs an 85% future average. The maximum final WAM is 87.5%.
Assumptions to check
This is a standard credit-weighted percentage model. Include recorded failures if your rules count them. Remove courses your university excludes; do not turn an excluded course into a recorded zero. Use a consistent credit-unit system. Honours, faculty or year multipliers, nominal marks, retake replacement and rounding rules are not automatic. No WAM-to-GPA conversion is performed.
Read all calculation notes ↗A few useful answers
Is WAM the same as GPA?
No. WAM uses percentage marks weighted by counted credit units. GPA uses institution-specific grade points. There is no universal conversion between them.
Can I average my semester WAMs?
Only if their counted credit loads are equal. Combine the underlying counted units and marks; an unweighted average of unequal semesters is misleading.
Do failed courses count?
That depends on your institution and the specific average. Include a recorded failure with its actual mark and units when the rules count it. This tool cannot infer exclusions.
What happens when no future units remain?
The result shows the entered final WAM and whether it meets your target. It does not ask you to earn marks on nonexistent future work.
Planning estimates, not official academic results. Your course and institution set the rules.
Check which WAM you are calculating
A course WAM, honours average and faculty-specific calculation can follow different rules. This tool provides a transparent credit-weighted average from your selected numerical results. Confirm course inclusion and credit values before relying on it.
Different credit values change the result
A 72% mark worth six units and an 80% mark worth twelve units produce about 77.33%, because the second course counts twice as much. Simply averaging the two marks would give 76%.
Turn the future average into a plan
A required average above 100% cannot fit the entered credit window. A longer window or a different target may change that. The calculator does not predict the study hours needed to achieve a mark; estimate your workload separately.
Guides for this calculation
Check your institution’s rules
These sources explain example methods and policy differences. No university preset is applied.
UNSW: WAM formula, counted results and faculty differences ↗