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4 months ago
GPA measures your academic performance for a single semester or term. While, CGPA represents your overall performance in a year or entire course. CGPA is the calculated average of your GPAs over the duration of your study.
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a year ago
Here are point-wise difference between CGPA and GPA
| CGPA | GPA | |
|---|---|---|
| Purpose | CGPA represents academic performance in an academic year | GPA represents academic performance in a semester |
| Importance | Used for admissions to universities and to get scholarship. | Used to assess academic progress |
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8 years ago
GPA and CGPA are grade systems used in different colleges and universities to assign an evaluative measure of a students scholastic abilities.
Both GPA and CGPA are reflective of a student's performance in a semester or the entire course that he has studied, but some colleges give more importance t
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