North Macedonian grading system
In North Macedonia, university grades run from 10 (best) to 5, and 6 is the lowest pass. School grades: 1 to 5, lowest pass 2.
Example · Credit-weighted average of 3 courses
Between 9 and 10
Excellent or exceptional: your institution’s rule on rounding decides which grade goes on your record. 6 is the lowest pass.
3 courses, 15 credits.
University grades: 5 to 10
Bachelor's and master's courses at universities in North Macedonia.
| Grade | Meaning | Marks | Pass? |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 | exceptional | 91–100% | Pass |
| 9 | excellent | 81–90% | Pass |
| 8 | very good | 71–80% | Pass |
| 7 | good | 61–70% | Pass |
| 6 | sufficient | 51–60% | Pass |
| 5 | insufficient | 1–50% | Fail |
School grades: 1 to 5
Primary and secondary schools in North Macedonia.
| Grade | On the transcript | Meaning | Pass? |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | одличен (odličen) | excellent | Pass |
| 4 | многу добар (mnogu dobar) | very good | Pass |
| 3 | добар (dobar) | good | Pass |
| 2 | доволен (dovolen) | sufficient | Pass |
| 1 | недоволен (nedovolen) | insufficient | Fail |
North Macedonian grades and a US GPA
This page gives no US equivalents for North Macedonian 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 North Macedonia
- University grades are usually not given word labels: a course is simply passed with 6 to 10 or failed with 5.
- A failing 5 is almost never entered in a student's record book, so transcripts normally list only passing grades.
- Each university grade stands for a band of points out of 100: 51 to 60 points gives a 6, and every further 10 points raises the grade by one, up to 10 for 91 to 100.
Sources: Wikipedia, Grading systems by country: North Macedonia; Wikipedia (German), Schulnote: Nordmazedonien.