Marks Percentage Calculator

Divide the marks you obtained by the total marks the exam was out of, then multiply by 100. For 432 out of 500 that is (432 ÷ 500) × 100 = 86.4%. Enter the two figures in the calculator above and it does it for you, to two decimal places, along with your grade and division.

Add up the marks you scored in all five subjects, add up what those five subjects were out of, then divide the first total by the second and multiply by 100. Scoring 72, 88, 61, 95 and 54 out of 100 each is 370 out of 500, which is 74%. Choose "Subject by subject" above and the calculator adds both totals up as you type.

Only when every subject is out of the same total. If one paper is out of 100 and another is out of 50, averaging their percentages weights the smaller paper as heavily as the bigger one and gives the wrong figure. Adding the marks and the maximums first is always correct, which is why the subject-wise calculator here works that way.

Most Indian boards set the pass mark at 33% of the total, and some use 35% or 40%, with a separate minimum for practical and theory papers in many cases. Because it varies, the pass mark is a box you can change on this page rather than a fixed number — set it to whatever your board or university states and the result is judged against that.

On the CBSE nine-point scale, 91% and above is A1, 81–90% is A2, 71–80% is B1, 61–70% is B2, 51–60% is C1, 41–50% is C2, 33–40% is D and anything under 33% is E. The calculator labels your result with the matching grade. Other boards and universities use their own letters and cut-offs, and many award grades per subject rather than on the overall percentage.

The convention on most Indian mark sheets is 60% and above for First Division, 45% to 59.99% for Second Division and 33% to 44.99% for Third Division, with 75% and above often marked as Distinction. These are conventions rather than a national rule — the exact cut-offs differ by board, university and course, so check the ones printed on your own mark sheet or in the notification you are applying against.

For CBSE, divide the overall percentage by 9.5 — 81.7% is a CGPA of 8.6. To go the other way, multiply the CGPA by 9.5. The calculator shows the CGPA equivalent beside your percentage. Other boards and universities use their own conversion, and some publish a table rather than a formula, so use the one your own institution states when a form asks for it.

The pass mark as a number of marks is (Pass % ÷ 100) × Total marks — 33% of 500 is 165. When a result falls under the pass mark, the calculator shows exactly how many marks short it was, so you do not have to work the subtraction out separately.

Yes. The calculator does not care what the exam was: any marks obtained out of any total works, including papers out of 75, 80 or 150, and subjects with different maximums in the same list. For a semester or an aggregate across years, put each paper in as its own row and the totals are added correctly.

No. Unlike our image and PDF tools, this calculator sends nothing to a server at all — the arithmetic runs inside your browser on your own device. Your marks are not uploaded, not logged and not stored, and they disappear the moment you close the tab.

It is completely free, with no sign-up, no email address to hand over and no daily limit. It is fully responsive on Android and iPhone as well as desktop, and because the page does no network work after it loads, the calculations keep working even if your connection drops.