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Class GradeCALCULATOR

Tunisian grading system

In Tunisia, grades run from 20.00 (best) to 0.00, and 10 is the lowest pass.

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Credits are optional: leave them all empty to count every course the same.

Example · Credit-weighted average of 3 courses

15.467

bien (good)

A pass. 10 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.

0–1010–1212–1414–1616–20pass0.0020.00 best

Grades: 0 to 20

Secondary schools, the baccalauréat and universities in Tunisia. The honours (mentions) apply to an overall average, such as a university year or degree.

Tunisian grades, best first
GradeOn the transcriptMeaningPass?
16–20très bienvery goodPass
14–16biengoodPass
12–14assez bienfairly goodPass
10–12passablepassPass
0–10failFail

Tunisian grades and a US GPA

This page gives no US equivalents for Tunisian 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 Tunisia

  • Marking is strict, so a 12 is generally considered a good mark and a common starting point for graduate admission and scholarships.
  • Universities hold a main exam session and a resit session, and marks in different modules of the same year can offset one another.
  • Some institutions grant a conceded pass for a module mark between 9 and 10 when the semester or year average is at least 10.
  • The baccalauréat has a main session in early June and a resit session (session de contrôle) at the end of June.
  • Primary schools have moved to a letter-grade scale.

Sources: Wikipedia, Academic grading in Tunisia; Wikipedia (French), Baccalauréat en Tunisie; Mediterranean Institute of Technology (MIT Nabeul), Licences 2021–2022: régime des études et des examens.