What it does
Score A answers one question: what do I need to score on everything I have left?
You tell it how your course is graded — the categories and what each is worth — and you log each score as you get it back. From then on it tells you the grade you need on every remaining assignment to pass, to hold the letter you're on, or to hit the grade you're aiming for. It does the same for your whole term, weighted by credits.
It works for high school and for university. Nothing you enter leaves your browser except the syllabus text you choose to have read.
Quick start
- Load one course. Find the grading section of your syllabus, copy it, paste it into the box at the top, and press Read the syllabus. Check the preview, then press Create the course.
- Type in the scores you already have. Each category holds its own assignments. Leave the ones you haven't taken blank — blank is what makes the math work.
- Read the big number. That's what you need on each assignment still open.
Repeat for your other courses with + Add course. Five courses take about ten minutes once, and after that it's ten seconds every time a grade comes back.
First time you open it, you'll see a sample term with four courses. It's there so you can see how everything works before entering anything real. Type over it, or press Start from scratch to clear it.
Loading a syllabus
There are two ways in, and one of them is much better.
Pasting text — the reliable one
Open your syllabus, find the part that explains grading, select it, copy it, and paste it in. You don't need the whole document. What matters is the part that says what each piece is worth, for example:
Grading: Quizzes 20%, Homework 15%, Unit Tests 40%, Final Exam 25%. There are four quizzes; the lowest quiz score is dropped. 60% or above is required to pass.
If the grading rules are spread over a table and a footnote, include both. Extra text doesn't hurt — missing text does.
A photo or screenshot
If you can't copy the text — a scanned PDF, a photo of the board — drag an image into the drop zone or press Choose file. Make sure the grading table is in focus and readable. Text works better than an image whenever you have the choice.
PDFs can't be read directly. Open the PDF, copy the grading section and paste it, or take a screenshot of that page and upload that.
Checking the preview — don't skip this
Before anything is created you get a preview of what was understood: the course name, the credits, each category with its weight, how many assignments it holds, and whether any lowest scores get dropped.
Read it. Anything wrong here flows into every number the app shows you afterward. Two things to look at first:
- Does it add up to 100%? There's a badge that tells you. If it doesn't, something was missed — a whole category, usually.
- Are the assignment counts right? If your syllabus says four quizzes and the preview shows one, the drop-lowest rule and the per-assignment math will both be off.
If the weights don't add up, you'll also be offered a Read it again, more carefully button. That re-reads the same text with a slower, more thorough setting. Use it once; if the second try is still wrong, create the course anyway and fix it by hand — it's faster.
Warnings
Sometimes the preview shows amber notes. Those are rules that were found in your syllabus but can't be represented in the app — things like "you must score at least 60% on the final exam to pass the course" or an attendance requirement. The app does not apply those rules. They're shown so you know they exist and can keep them in mind yourself.
Setting up by hand
Set it up by hand creates a course with a common structure already in place — homework, quizzes, tests, final exam — that you rename and reweight. Often it's quicker than hunting for the syllabus, especially for a course you already know by heart.
You can also build one from nothing: add a course, then + Add category for each piece, set the weight, and + score for each assignment inside it.
Logging grades
A course is made of categories, and each category holds its own assignments.
The category is what carries the weight — "Quizzes, 20%". The assignments inside it are what you actually take — Quiz 1, Quiz 2, and so on. A category's grade is the average of its assignments, and the categories combine according to their weights.
A category can hold a single assignment. "Final Exam, 25%" is just a category with one thing in it.
Entering a score
Type it in the box next to the assignment. It turns blue to show it's a real, recorded score. Leave anything you haven't taken blank — that's how the app knows what's still open. Clearing a box turns that assignment back into an open one.
Dropping the lowest
If your syllabus drops the lowest quiz, set that on the category: the dropdown next to the weight offers drop lowest, drop 2 lowest, and so on. The app handles this properly, including while some of those assignments are still open — which is exactly the case where doing it in your head goes wrong.
Adding and removing
+ score adds an assignment to a category — useful when a professor announces an extra quiz. The × removes one. Removing a category removes its assignments with it.
If your weights don't add up to 100%, a badge tells you and the app uses whatever they do add up to as the base. The numbers stay meaningful, but it usually means a category is missing.
The big number
The large figure on the right is what you need on each assignment you still have open, in order to pass.
"Each" is meant literally: if it says 84 and you have three things left, it's assuming 84 on all three. Score higher on one and you need less on the others — the number updates as soon as you enter a real grade.
Above it you'll see one of five states:
| State | What it means |
|---|---|
| Within reach | You need that score, and it's a normal one to get. |
| Tight, but possible | What you need is in the top fifth of the scale. Still doable, no margin for a bad day. |
| Passing no matter what | You'd pass even scoring zero on everything left. The course is already yours. |
| Out of reach | Even a perfect score on everything left doesn't get you there. It shows you the ceiling you'd land on. |
| Course closed | Everything is graded. That's your final grade. |
The details underneath
| Average of what's graded | How you're doing so far, across everything you've actually taken. |
| Graded so far | How many assignments have a score, out of the total. |
| Still open | How much of the course grade is still undecided. |
| If you keep this pace | Where you'd land if the rest goes like the part you've done. |
| Floor if you stop trying | The worst you can possibly finish with. |
| Best grade still reachable | Your ceiling — a perfect score on everything left. |
Those last two are the honest bounds on your course. Whatever happens, you finish somewhere between them.
Scenarios
Three targets, side by side. Each shows what you'd need on every assignment still open.
| Just pass | The minimum, nothing more. |
| Hold your B+ | Named after the letter you're currently on track for. What it takes not to slip below it. When letter grades are off, this becomes a modest cushion above passing instead. |
| Your target | Yours to set. Pick a letter from the dropdown, or type any number. |
Any of them can also read Locked in (already yours) or Out of reach (no longer possible), with your ceiling shown underneath.
What if…
Every assignment you haven't taken gets a slider. Drag it to a score you think you'll get and press lock.
A locked guess is treated as done: it stops being something you need a grade on, and the big number recalculates over whatever is still open. That's what makes this useful rather than decorative — it answers "if I get an 80 on the midterm, what do I need on the final?"
Locked guesses show as dashed amber boxes so you never confuse them with real scores. Press release to unlock one, or Release all to clear them. When the real grade arrives, type it into the score box and the guess disappears on its own.
The whole term
At the bottom, every course at once, averaged and weighted by credits.
Set each course's credits in its Credits box. Half credits are fine — type 0.5. If all your courses carry the same weight, leave them all at 1.
The three projection modes
Anything without a score and without a locked guess has to be assumed. The three buttons choose the assumption:
| I keep my current average | The realistic one. Assumes the rest goes like what you've done so far. |
| I do the bare minimum to pass | Your floor for the term — how bad it gets if you coast. |
| I hit my target | Your ceiling under your own goals. |
The bars show each course against the passing line, with tick marks at the letter cutoffs. Click any bar to jump to that course. The badges tell you how many credits are at risk — on track to finish below passing — and how many are already lost.
Settings
Three controls in the header, and they apply to your whole term.
| Grading scale | Percent 0–100 by default. Also GPA 4.0 and several national scales. Switching converts your existing grades proportionally rather than discarding them. |
| Letter grades | Which cutoffs your school uses. A · A− · B+ … puts A at 93; there's a version with A+ at 97, a simple 90/80/70/60, and No letters. Check your syllabus — schools differ, and this changes every letter you see. |
| Passing | The lowest grade that still passes. 60 by default; some courses and programs require more. |
Copy summary at the bottom puts a plain-text rundown of your whole term on the clipboard — handy for pasting into a message or an email to an advisor.
Where your data lives
Your courses and grades are stored in the browser you typed them into, and nowhere else. There's no account and no server copy.
What follows from that:
- Your phone and your laptop are separate. Courses entered on one don't appear on the other. Pick one device and stay with it.
- Clearing your browsing data erases it. So does using private or incognito windows, where nothing is kept at all.
- Nobody else can see it — not your school, not your parents, not us.
The one thing that does leave your browser is the syllabus text or image you choose to have read, which is sent to be turned into a course structure. Your grades are never sent anywhere.
If it looks wrong
The weights don't add up to 100%
A category was probably missed. Compare the list against your syllabus and add what's missing with + Add category. In the meantime the numbers still work — whatever the weights add up to is used as the base.
The syllabus was read wrong
Fix it by hand. Every name, weight, and count stays editable after the course is created, and correcting two fields is faster than re-reading the document.
The number I need looks too high
Check three things, in this order: that the assignments you haven't taken are blank and not zero; that the number of assignments in each category matches your syllabus; and that drop-lowest is set where your syllabus says it applies. A zero entered by mistake is the most common cause by far — a blank means "not taken yet", a zero means "I took it and got nothing".
The letters don't match my school's
Change the Letter grades setting in the header. Schools use different cutoffs and some use none at all.
The Read the syllabus button is greyed out
Automatic reading isn't available in this session. Everything else works — set your courses up by hand.
It's asking me for an access code
Score A is in private preview, so it's behind a shared code. Ask whoever sent you the link. You only enter it once per device — after that it remembers. If it asks again out of the blue, the code was changed; ask for the new one.
My courses disappeared
Most likely you're on a different browser or device, or browsing data was cleared. There's no copy to restore from — see Where your data lives.
How the math works
Worth knowing, because it's the reason you can trust the number.
Each category averages its own assignments, dropping the lowest ones when that's the rule. The categories then combine according to their weights. That gives your course grade.
To find what you need, the app searches instead of solving: it asks what the lowest score is that, repeated on everything still open, lands you exactly on target. That sounds roundabout, but it's the reason the answer stays correct when your syllabus drops your lowest quiz — because raising the score you assume can change which quiz gets dropped, and a plain formula silently gets that wrong.
Rounding goes in your favour, not the app's. The score you need is always rounded up and your ceiling is always rounded down. If you truly need 87.25, you'll be told 87.3 — because 87.2 wouldn't have been enough.
One more thing: reading your syllabus is the only part that uses AI, and it never touches the arithmetic. All it does is turn your document into a list of categories and weights, which you then confirm. Every number after that is computed in your browser, the same way every time.