MAKAUT Gives You a DGPA, Not a Class. Here's What It Converts To.
By Ritusmoi Kaushik · Published: 16 July 2026 · 9 min read
A MAKAUT B.Tech grad from a college near Durgapur asked me a question last placement season that I didn't have a clean answer to at first. His final grade card said "DGPA 7.28" and nothing else. No percentage. No class. A recruitment form wanted both. He'd checked four calculator sites, and they gave him four different classes: one said First Class, one said First Class with Distinction, one said Second Class, and one didn't mention a class at all.
So which was it?
None of them, as it turns out. I went and read MAKAUT's actual regulations, and MAKAUT doesn't award a class or a division on the degree at all. The four sites weren't just disagreeing with each other. They were inventing a thing that doesn't exist.
First, what DGPA even is
This trips up more MAKAUT students than the formula does. You spend your whole degree looking at SGPA and CGPA, and then the final consolidated grade card shows a DGPA, which you've maybe never seen written down before.
DGPA stands for Degree Grade Point Average. Think of it as the final, locked version of your CGPA. Your CGPA moves every semester while you're still studying. Your DGPA is the one number that gets computed once, at the end, across the whole programme, and printed on the degree. For conversion purposes they behave identically. The same (DGPA − 0.75) × 10 that converts a CGPA converts a DGPA, because it's the same kind of number, just finalised.
So if your grade card says DGPA 7.28, that's the number you convert. Subtract 0.75, multiply by 10, and you get 65.3%.
The formula, and the 0.75 that everyone drops
MAKAUT publishes its conversion method in an official notice titled "How to Calculate Percentage from Your Grade Point." The formula is:
The multiplier is 10. That part everyone gets. The bit that gets dropped is the 0.75 you subtract first, which pushes the whole scale down by 7.5 points at every grade point. A plain × 10 will tell you a DGPA of 7.0 is 70%. It's actually 62.5%. That's the difference between clearing a 65% cutoff and not.
A perfect 10 DGPA, for the record, comes out to 92.5%, not 100%. The scale tops out below 100 by design.
The "First Class" nobody at MAKAUT actually gets
Here's the part that sent my Durgapur friend in circles. Search "makaut first class" or "makaut distinction cgpa" and you'll get numbers. Confident ones. One site says First Class with Distinction is 7.50, another says 7.75. First Class is 6.50 on one page and 6.75 on another. I checked the results while writing this, and Google's own summary at the top managed to state two different Distinction cutoffs in the same answer.
They're all guessing, because MAKAUT's own rules don't set any of these.
The relevant document is MAKAUT's grading regulation, most recently the amendment circulated as Circular No. COE/MAKAUT,WB/51/2020, which governs how results are declared. It covers promotion and how the DGPA is awarded, and it says nothing about First Class, Second Class, or Distinction. Go further back to the founding WBUT regulation and it's even more explicit. It states, in as many words, that "there shall be no class/division awarded to a student either at semester or degree level."
No class. No division. Not at semester level, not on the degree. What you get is a DGPA and its percentage equivalent, and that's the whole story.
Here's my take, and I'll own it: the "First Class at 6.50" numbers on calculator sites are copied from universities that do award classes, and pasted onto MAKAUT because a page looks more complete with a class column. It's the same instinct that puts a fake "Distinction at 75%" on Delhi University, which also doesn't have one. If a site shows you a MAKAUT class, ask it which regulation. It can't tell you, because there isn't one. We used to show a class here too, until we read the regulation and pulled it out. Now the calculator says "—" for the class and explains why.
What each DGPA actually converts to
Find your DGPA or CGPA on the left, read across for the percentage. There's no class column, because there's no class. That's not a gap in the table. That's the point.
| DGPA / CGPA | Percentage |
|---|---|
| 10.00 | 92.50% |
| 9.00 | 82.50% |
| 8.25 | 75.00% |
| 8.00 | 72.50% |
| 7.75 | 70.00% |
| 7.00 | 62.50% |
| 6.75 | 60.00% |
| 6.50 | 57.50% |
| 6.00 | 52.50% |
| 5.75 | 50.00% |
| 5.00 | 42.50% |
| 4.75 | 40.00% |
Notice 7.75, 6.75 and 5.75 land exactly on 70, 60 and 50. That's not luck. The 0.75 subtraction exists precisely so the grade points map onto the old percentage boundaries recruiters already used. If you're chasing a 60% placement cutoff, your number is a DGPA of 6.75, not 6.0.
The grade scale, and the E that isn't a fail
MAKAUT runs a 10-point letter scale. One letter on it catches people out every single year.
| Grade | Marks | Grade points |
|---|---|---|
| O (Outstanding) | 90–100 | 10 |
| E (Excellent) | 80–89 | 9 |
| A | 70–79 | 8 |
| B | 60–69 | 7 |
| C | 50–59 | 6 |
| D | 40–49 | 5 |
| F | below 40 | 0 |
The E grade is Excellent. It's a 9, second only to O. Every year students see an E on a grade card and assume they've failed something, because E means fail in the school-board world most of us grew up in. At MAKAUT it's the second-highest grade you can get. F is the fail. E is nearly the top.
How MAKAUT compares
The 0.75 subtraction puts MAKAUT in the same shape as a few other universities, and well below the plain × 10 crowd. Same 8.0 CGPA, different transcripts:
| University | Formula | 8.0 CGPA prints |
|---|---|---|
| MAKAUT | (DGPA − 0.75) × 10 | 72.50% |
| AKTU | (CGPA − 0.75) × 10 | 72.50% |
| SPPU | (CGPA − 0.75) × 10 | 72.50% |
| Anna University | CGPA × 10 | 80.00% |
| RGPV | CGPA × 10 | 80.00% |
Seven and a half points of difference on identical work, depending on which state your university sits in. And on the class question, MAKAUT is the outlier in the other direction. Anna University awards a First Class with Distinction, AKTU has its own First Division with Distinction, but MAKAUT awards nothing above the DGPA itself. If a MAKAUT student and an Anna student both hit 8.0 CGPA, the Anna student has a class on their transcript and the MAKAUT student has a number. The 60% in CGPA post maps the placement line across all fifteen universities if you want the wider picture.
Sources and notes
The formula comes from MAKAUT's official "How to Calculate Percentage from Your Grade Point" notice on makautwb.ac.in. The no-classification point comes from MAKAUT's grading regulation, the 2002 First Regulation of WBUT and its current amendment (Circular No. COE/MAKAUT,WB/51/2020), both of which govern declaration of results and neither of which sets a class or division. I read them rather than trusting the summaries, which is the whole reason this post says there's no First Class when most others quote one.
One honest note. MAKAUT rebranded from WBUT in 2016, and its regulations have been amended several times. If some department or affiliating body applies its own classification for a specific programme, that would live in a rule I haven't seen. As far as the university-wide regulations go, the degree is DGPA-only. For an official conversion certificate on letterhead, which some employers and foreign universities ask for, apply through the MAKAUT examination section with your grade card, and confirm the fee and turnaround with them.
The opening anecdote is a composite — the situation is real, but names, colleges, and identifying details have been changed.