Education in Ukraine - Marks

Marks

Ukrainian universities use a traditional 5-point scale:

  • "5" = "excellent"
  • "4" = "good"
  • "3" = "acceptable"
  • "2" = "unacceptable".

"5", "4", "3" can be described as "Satisfactory", "2" - as "Fail". Students who get a failing grade of "2", have two more chances to pass an examination. Since 2006 (and even earlier in some universities), university students are graded on a rating scale of 0 to 100. These grades can be transformed to the 5-point scale approximately as follows (this system may vary a little from university to university and may change from time to time):

  • from 91 to 100 means "5"
  • from 71 to 90 means "4"
  • from 51 to 70 means "3"
  • from 0 to 50 means "2"

Both the rating scale and the 5-point scale are used in university registers.

As for secondary schools, they also used the above-mentioned 5-point scale till 2000. Since 2000 secondary schools use a 12-point scale, which could be transformed into the traditional 5-point scale as follows:

  • "12" = "5+"
  • "11" = "5"
  • "10" = "5-"
  • "9" = "4+"
  • "8" = "4"
  • "7" = "4-"
  • "6" = "3+"
  • "5" = "3"
  • "4" = "3-"
  • "3" = "2+"
  • "2" = "2"
  • "1" = "2-"

Here signs "+" and "-" denote respectively better and worse version of a mark, for example, "4-" means "somewhat worse than good".

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