Primary and Secondary School Level
In elementary schools and secondary schools, a five-point grading scale is used:
- 5 (excellent)
- 4 (very good)
- 3 (good)
- 2 (sufficient) is the lowest passing grade
- 1 (insufficient) is the lowest possible grade, and the failing one.
In addition to that descriptive grades are used to grade student's conduct and religious or civic education. Religious or civic education grades are not counted into arithmetic mean. In elementary schools conduct grades also are not counted into arithmetic mean while in secondary schools they are.
At the end of each semester for each subject arithmetic mean of received marks is calculated and final grade is determined using following criteria:
- 5 (excellent) for arithmetic means 4.50 to 5.00
- 4 (very good) for arithmetic means 3.50 to 4.49
- 3 (good) for arithmetic means 2.50 to 3.49
- 2 (sufficient) for arithmetic means of 2.00 to 2.49
- 1 (insufficient) This is used if the student does not have grade of at least 2 in each topic of the course
At the end of school year the final grades of subjects are calculated from final grades at semester ends. After that general success of the student is calculated as an arithmetic mean of grades from all subjects using the above mentioned criteria.
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