The SGPA your remaining SRM credits must average.
Unofficial student guide. Not affiliated with SRM Institute of Science and Technology. Numbers are estimates from the rules this site's calculators implement. The regulation PDF is the 2021 B.Tech / integrated M.Tech regulation.
A placement portal asks for CGPA because it is one filter, applied before anyone reads a project. The filter is the company's number, not ours. This page will not tell you that a particular firm "requires 8.5", because those cutoffs move by season, role and campus, and a wrong number here would be a lie with a calculator under it. What the page will do is answer the arithmetic question: if the filter in front of you is 7.50, 8.00, 8.50 or 9.00, what average SGPA do the credits you have not yet finished need to be?
The shape of the answer surprises people who still have a lot of credits, and it shuts the door on people who do not. Sixty-six credits at 8.20, with 94 credits left toward a 160-credit total, need (8.50 × 160 − 8.20 × 66) ÷ 94. That is (1360 − 541.2) ÷ 94 = 818.8 ÷ 94 = 8.71. An 8.50 finish is still a plausible ask. The same student aiming at 9.00 needs (1440 − 541.2) ÷ 94 = 9.56. Possible, and it assumes almost every remaining course is an A+ or O. Aiming at 9.50 from here needs more than 10, which the scale does not contain. The planner states that as "unreachable" and shows the highest CGPA a perfect run would reach.
Use the box for your numbers. Then decide whether the next semester's high-credit courses are the ones that have to move. A 1-credit audit course cannot carry an 8.71 requirement on its own. A 4-credit professional core can. The eight-semester tracker is where you assign those credits to actual semester rows instead of one lump.
Four targets, one starting point
Start at 66 completed credits, CGPA 8.20, 94 credits remaining, total 160. Grade points already earned: 66 × 8.20 = 541.20.
Target 7.50 needs 7.50 × 160 = 1200 points in total, so 658.80 from the remaining 94 credits, which is 7.01 SGPA. A student who is afraid of a 7.50 filter is, in this specific position, already safe if they simply do not collapse.
Target 8.00 needs 1280 − 541.20 = 738.80, divided by 94, which is 7.86. Ordinary good semesters clear it. One failed 4-credit course makes the other courses do extra work, because the fail adds credits to the completed side at zero points and does not reduce the remaining programme credits unless it is a course you were already counting.
Target 8.50 needs 1360 − 541.20 = 818.80, divided by 94, which is 8.71. This is the first target in the list that demands A and A+ as the normal grade rather than the celebration grade.
Target 9.00 needs 1440 − 541.20 = 898.80, divided by 94, which is 9.56. Every remaining course has to live at the top of the scale, and there is very little room for a B+. Target 9.50 needs 1520 − 541.20 = 978.80, divided by 94, which is 10.41. The scale ends at 10. The planner will say unreachable. A perfect 10.00 on all 94 remaining credits reaches (541.20 + 940) ÷ 160 = 9.26. That 9.26 is the ceiling from this starting point, and no amount of confidence changes the ceiling.
A later starting point, same arithmetic
Move the same degree total to a student who has already finished 88 credits at 7.40, with 72 credits left. Points already on the card: 88 × 7.40 = 651.20. A target of 7.50 needs 1,200 − 651.20 = 548.80 from those 72 credits, which is 7.62 SGPA. A target of 8.00 needs 1,280 − 651.20 = 628.80, which is 8.73 SGPA. A target of 8.50 needs 1,360 − 651.20 = 708.80, which is 9.84 SGPA. A target of 9.00 needs 1,440 − 651.20 = 788.80, which is 10.96, and 10.96 does not exist on the scale.
The ceiling from this second starting point is every remaining credit at 10: 72 × 10 = 720, plus the 651.20 already earned, is 1,371.20 over 160 credits, CGPA 8.57. If a portal asks for 9.00 and the ceiling is 8.57, the useful next step is a different role or a different published cutoff, not another hour of arithmetic. Type the cutoff you were actually given into the planner. This page does not know which company published which number, and it will not invent one.
Read the planner line as a semester plan, not as a personality test. An 8.73 requirement on 72 credits is about eighteen 4-credit courses, or fewer if some are 3-credit electives. One 4-credit B (6 points, 24) instead of an A (8 points, 32) removes 8 points from the pool. Those 8 points have to come back from somewhere else in the 72 credits, which is 8 ÷ 72 = 0.11 on the remaining average, on top of the 8.73. Two such slips are 0.22. The box above recomputes the whole thing when you change the target or the credits. Change the inputs to your card. Do not memorise 8.73 if your card is not 88 credits at 7.40.
CGPA planner on this page
This uses the same credit audit as the degree tracker. Completed credits plus credits still to take must land between 60 and 260. Regulation 2021 B.Tech programmes are often planned around 160.
For eight separate semester rows, open the degree credit tracker. The $19 export on pricing is optional and is not required to see the number above.
Questions this page answers
What SGPA do I need for a higher CGPA?
Multiply the target CGPA by total credits, subtract the grade points you already have, and divide by the credits you have not finished.
Does this page know a company's cutoff?
No. Type the cutoff the company or the portal actually published. The page only does the arithmetic.
What does unreachable mean?
The required SGPA is above 10, which the scale cannot represent. The planner also shows the CGPA you would reach if every remaining credit scored 10.
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