Kuwaiti grading system
In Kuwait, university grades run from A (best) to F on a 4-point scale, and D is the lowest pass at Kuwait University.
Example · Credit-weighted average of 3 courses
Between A− and A
Excellent either way: your institution’s rule on rounding decides which grade goes on your record. D is the lowest pass.
3 courses, 15 credits.
University grades: A to F
Undergraduate courses at Kuwait University. The percentage needed for each letter is set in each course's syllabus, so it differs between courses.
| Grade | Meaning | Pass? |
|---|---|---|
| A | excellent | Pass |
| A− | excellent | Pass |
| B+ | very good | Pass |
| B | very good | Pass |
| B− | very good | Pass |
| C+ | good | Pass |
| C | good | Pass |
| C− | good | Pass |
| D+ | pass | Pass |
| D | pass | Pass |
| F | fail | Fail |
Kuwaiti grades and a US GPA
This page gives no US equivalents for Kuwaiti 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 Kuwait
- Kuwait University multiplies each course's grade points by its credit hours to give a grade point average out of 4.00.
- Each course syllabus sets the marks needed for each letter; in one College of Business Administration course an A needs 95 and a mark below 60 fails.
- Undergraduates whose GPA falls below 2.0 receive an academic warning, and too many warnings lead to dismissal.
- Each college keeps an honours list of students with a GPA of 3.5 or more, and students who graduate on time with a GPA of 3.67 receive an honours degree.
Sources: Wikipedia, Grading systems by country: Kuwait; Kuwait University, Academic and Admission; Kuwait University, Faculty of Allied Health Sciences, Admission, Registration and Transfer Regulations; Kuwait University, Information Science Department, Grading scale; Kuwait University, College of Business Administration, Course syllabus 1013-472; Kuwait University, Information Science Department, ABET self-study report, Criterion 1: Students.