Romanian grading system
In Romania, school and university grades run from 10 (best) to 1, and 5 is the lowest pass. Primary school grades: FB to I, lowest pass S.
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: 10 to 1
Lower and upper secondary schools, national exams and universities. The grades have no official names; the meanings are the usual descriptions.
| Grade | Meaning | Pass? |
|---|---|---|
| 10 | excellent | Pass |
| 9 | very good | Pass |
| 8 | good | Pass |
| 7 | satisfactory (some weaknesses) | Pass |
| 6 | satisfactory (significant weaknesses) | Pass |
| 5 | sufficient | Pass |
| 4 | insufficient | Fail |
| 3 | poor | Fail |
| 2 | very poor | Fail |
| 1 | lowest grade, also given for cheating | Fail |
Primary school grades: FB to I
Primary schools (up to year 4).
| Grade | On the transcript | Meaning | Pass? |
|---|---|---|---|
| FB | Foarte bine | very good | Pass |
| B | Bine | good | Pass |
| S | Suficient | sufficient | Pass |
| I | Insuficient | insufficient | Fail |
Romanian grades and a US GPA
This page gives no US equivalents for Romanian 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 Romania
- The Bacalaureat school-leaving exam is passed with at least 5 in every exam and an overall average of at least 6.
- Exam results and averages are written with two decimals, such as 8.60, while the class register holds whole grades.
- At school each subject closes one average a year: the mean of the year’s grades rounded to the nearest whole number, with a half rounded up in the pupil’s favour (9.50 becomes 10).
- A 10 is not unusual, a 9 is already seen as an excellent grade, and the typical grade is between 7 and 8.
- The primary ratings match the 10-point scale: Foarte bine stands for 9 or 10, Bine for 7 or 8, Suficient for 5 or 6, and Insuficient for 4 or less.
Sources: Wikipedia, Academic grading in Romania; Wikipedia, Grading systems by country: Romania; Romanian Wikipedia, Bacalaureatul românesc; Romanian Ministry of Education, ROFUIP 2024 (OME 5726/2024), article 109.