Grading systems by country
A grade means something only on its own country’s scale: a 2.0 is a good grade in Germany, a fail on the Dutch 1 to 10 scale and a C average on a US 4.0 GPA. Choose a country to see where a grade sits on its scale, whether it passes, the average of several courses by their credits and, for 17 of the 109 countries, a US reading from a named table.
Choose a country, then enter a grade on its scale.
Find a country
Each country has its own page with its scales, the words printed on transcripts, a drawn scale and the converter set to that country.
Africa
- Algeria0.00 to 20.00 · pass 10
- Angola0 to 20 · pass 10
- BotswanaA+ to E · pass C−
- CameroonA+ to F (0 to 100) · pass 50
- Egypt0 to 100% · pass 50%
- EthiopiaA+ to F · pass D
- GhanaA to F · pass D
- KenyaA to E (0 to 100%) · pass 40%
- MauritiusA+ to F (0 to 100%) · pass 40%
- Morocco0 to 20 · pass 10
- NamibiaA to E (0 to 100%) · pass 50%
- NigeriaA to F · pass E
- Senegal0 to 20 · pass 10
- South AfricaLevels 1 to 7 (0 to 100%) · pass 30%
- TanzaniaA to E · pass C
- Tunisia0 to 20 · pass 10
- UgandaA+ to F (0 to 5 points) · pass D
- ZambiaA+ to D (0 to 100%) · pass 50%
- Zimbabwe0 to 100% (1, 2.1, 2.2, pass) · pass 50%
Asia
- Afghanistan0 to 100 · pass 55
- BangladeshA+ to F · pass D
- China0 to 100 · pass 60
- Hong KongA+ to F · pass D
- IndiaO to F · pass P
- IndonesiaA to E · pass D
- JapanS to F · pass C
- KazakhstanA to F · pass D
- Kyrgyzstan5 to 1 · pass 3
- MalaysiaA+ to F · pass C
- NepalA+ to NG · pass D
- Pakistan0 to 100% (A to F) · pass 50%
- Philippines1.00 (best) to 5.00 · pass 3.00
- SingaporeA+ to F · pass D
- South KoreaA+ to F · pass D0
- Sri LankaA+ to E · pass C
- ThailandA to F · pass D
- Uzbekistan5 to 2 · pass 3
- Vietnam0.0 to 10.0 · pass 4.0
Caribbean
Central and South America
- Argentina0 to 10 · pass 4
- Brazil0.0 to 10.0 · pass 5.0
- Chile1.0 to 7.0 · pass 4.0
- Colombia0.0 to 5.0 · pass 3.0
- Costa Rica0 to 10 · pass 7.0
- Ecuador0.00 to 10.00 · pass 7
- Nicaragua0 to 100 · pass 60
- PanamaA to F · pass D
- Paraguay5 to 1 · pass 2
- Peru0 to 20 · pass 11
- UruguayExcelente to Muy insuficiente · pass Aceptable
- Venezuela0 to 20 · pass 10
Europe
- Albania4 to 10 · pass 5
- Armenia0 to 20 · pass 10
- Austria1 (best) to 5 · pass 4
- AzerbaijanA to F, 0 to 100 points · pass E
- Belarus10 to 0 · pass 4
- Belgium0 to 20 · pass 10
- Bosnia and Herzegovina5 to 10 · pass 6
- Bulgaria2.00 to 6.00 · pass 3.00
- Croatia1 to 5 · pass 2
- Czech Republic1 (best) to 5 · pass 4
- Denmark12 to −3 · pass 02
- EstoniaA to F · pass E
- Finland0 to 5 · pass 1
- France0 to 20 · pass 10
- GeorgiaA to F, 0 to 100 points · pass E
- Germany1.0 (best) to 5.0 · pass 4.0
- Greece0.00 to 10.00 · pass 5.00
- Hungary5 to 1 · pass 2
- Iceland0 to 10 · pass 5
- IrelandH1 to H8, 0 to 100% · pass H7
- Italy18 to 30 e lode · pass 18
- Kosovo5 to 10 · pass 6
- Latvia10 to 1 · pass 4
- Lithuania10 to 1 · pass 5
- Luxembourg1 to 60 · pass 30
- MaltaA+ to F (0 to 100%) · pass 45%
- Moldova10 to 1 · pass 5
- Netherlands1 to 10 · pass 5.5
- North Macedonia5 to 10 · pass 6
- NorwayA to F · pass E
- Poland5.0 to 2.0 · pass 3.0
- Portugal0 to 20 · pass 10
- Romania10 to 1 · pass 5
- Russia5 to 1 · pass 3
- Serbia5 to 10 · pass 6
- Slovakia1 (best) to 5 · pass 4
- Slovenia1 to 10 · pass 6
- Spain0.0 to 10.0 · pass 5.0
- SwedenA to F · pass E
- Switzerland1 to 6 · pass 4
- TurkeyAA to FF · pass DD
- Ukraine0 to 100 points · pass 60
- United KingdomFirst to Third · pass Third
Middle East
Can you convert a grade from one country to another?
Not by a formula. Scales differ in more than their numbers: a 10 out of 20 passes in France, where top marks are rare, while a 60% is the lowest pass at many US colleges. Two countries’ bands rarely line up, so any conversion is a reading by someone, and the one that counts is made by the school that receives your transcript.
Where Wikipedia or an official body prints a table from a country’s grades to US letters or grade points, the country’s page shows it, names it and uses it in the converter. Where none exists, the page says so and gives your average on your own scale instead, which is what to quote on an application.
To put two countries’ scales side by side, each grade’s meaning on both and the one published method many German universities use for a grade from abroad: compare two grading systems.
Grades in Europe: ECTS credits
European universities count courses in ECTS credits, 60 for a full-time year. An average across courses weights each grade by its credits: a 6-credit course counts twice as much as a 3-credit one. The converter does this when you enter the credits.
The old A-to-E ECTS grading scale was dropped in 2009. Universities now publish a grade distribution table instead, the share of students who receive each grade, so a receiving university can see how often a grade is given. If your transcript or diploma supplement carries one, that is the comparison other universities use.
Sources: each country’s page names its own; ECTS: Wikipedia, European Credit Transfer and Accumulation System. The data on these pages: CSV and JSON.