Albanian grading system
In Albania, school and university grades run from 10 (best) to 4, and 5 is the lowest pass.
Example · Weighted average of 3 courses
Between 9 and 10
Very good or excellent: your school’s or university’s rules decide which grade goes on your record. 5 is the lowest pass.
3 courses, weights adding up to 15.
School and university grades: 4 to 10
Schools from year 4 and universities in Albania.
| Grade | Meaning | Pass? |
|---|---|---|
| 10 | excellent | Pass |
| 9 | very good | Pass |
| 8 | good | Pass |
| 7 | satisfactory | Pass |
| 6 | sufficient | Pass |
| 5 | minimal pass | Pass |
| 4 | insufficient | Fail |
Albanian grades and a US GPA
This page gives no US equivalents for Albanian grades: we found no table for them on Wikipedia or from an official source, and we do not make one up. A US university reads a foreign transcript itself or through the credential evaluation service it names, and its conversion is the one that counts.
Send your grades as they are, with the scale above. When a form asks for your average, give it on your own scale and say which scale it is: the converter’s average does exactly that, weighted by credits when you enter them.
What to know about grades in Albania
- Grades are whole numbers from 4 to 10, and pupils in the first three school years get written comments instead of grades.
- Averages, and in some schools single grades, are written with up to two decimals.
- A school's final grade in a subject counts continuous assessment for 40%, end-of-unit tests for 40% and the pupil's portfolio for 20%, rounded to a whole number.
Sources: Wikipedia, Grading systems by country: Albania; Wikipedia (Albanian), Vlerësimi i nxënësve.