Kazakh grading system
In Kazakhstan, university courses are graded by percentage, letter and grade points on the national credit system: A (95–100%, 4.0) is best and D (50–54%, 1.0) is the lowest pass.
Example · Credit-weighted average of 3 courses
Excellent, 3.67
A pass: 90–94 of the marks. D is the lowest pass.
3 courses, 15 credits. Your institution’s own rules on rounding or cutting off decimals decide the grade on your record.
University grades: A to F
Courses at Kazakh universities under the national credit system.
| Grade | Meaning | Marks | Pass? |
|---|---|---|---|
| A | excellent, 4.0 | 95–100 | Pass |
| A− | excellent, 3.67 | 90–94 | Pass |
| B+ | good, 3.33 | 85–89 | Pass |
| B | good, 3.0 | 80–84 | Pass |
| B− | good, 2.67 | 75–79 | Pass |
| C+ | satisfactory, 2.33 | 70–74 | Pass |
| C | satisfactory, 2.0 | 65–69 | Pass |
| C− | satisfactory, 1.67 | 60–64 | Pass |
| D+ | satisfactory, 1.33 | 55–59 | Pass |
| D | satisfactory, 1.0 | 50–54 | Pass |
| F | unsatisfactory, 0 | 0–49 | Fail |
Kazakh grades and a US GPA
This page gives no US equivalents for Kazakh 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 Kazakhstan
- Each letter belongs to one of four traditional marks: excellent (A, A−), good (B+ to B−), satisfactory (C+ to D) and unsatisfactory (F).
- The GPA is the average of the grade points, weighted by each course's credits.