Calculate GPA from Grade List

[DrDebit]

I am doing admin for a college department. I want to enter the student's grades in A1:A10, for example, and in one cell, to convert those grades to grade points...an A becomes 4.0; a B+ becomes 3.3, etc.

I tried doing a vlookup for multiple lookup values. If I do =vlookup({"A","B+","C"},<lookup array>,2,0), it will work (but each element does a dynamic array and spills into the next column...can i turn that off?). Ah, I digress...

However, I don't want to list the individual grades in an array in the vlookup function, I want to use the cell references, A1:A10. Also, I want to use sumproduct to multiply each grade point by the number of units for that course.

Any ideas? Thank you in advance!

 

[Joe4]

I would recommend create a lookup table, instead of storing all the values right in your formula, and then using that with VLOOKUP.
See here fro an example.

Once you get that, the SUMPRODUCT should be pretty straightforward. If your units were in cells B1:B10, it would look something like:

=SUMPRODUCT(A1:A10*B1:B10)

 

[DrDebit]

Thank you for this. I was just hoping for a cell solution. Again, many thanks.

 

[Joe4]

I don't want to list the individual grades in an array in the vlookup function,

I was just hoping for a cell solution

Is it that you don't want to list the options in the formula, or you just don't want it to be an array?
If you don't want it to be an array, you would do a nested IF statement.
If you don't want to list the options in the formula, and you don't want to use a lookup table, then really your only other option is to create a User Defined Function in VBA.

So you have a decision to make here.

 

[DrDebit]

Thank you very much!