Introduction:

Grading in education is the attempt to apply standardized measurements of varying levels of achievement in a course. Grades can be assigned as letters, as a range, as a percentage, or as a number out of a possible total. In some countries, grades are averaged to create a grade point average.

How does a GPA work?

In the same way that your professors and instructors give you a grade to evaluate your progress or success in their course, your Grade Point Average is a score used to evaluate your success during the entirety of your degree programmer.

Your average GPA is a number that shows what you typically scored in your classes throughout the semester, term, and year. Your GPA scores can go up and down throughout your time at the university and will change according to how much you improve your overall grades (or, in some cases, how much you fell behind). Here are just a few universities where you can apply right now for a Master's degree with a medium-to-good GPA:

• University of Portsmouth, the UK
• PSB Paris School of Business, France
• Geneva Business School, Switzerland
• Taylor's University, Malaysia
• James Madison University, the US

Grading systems and GPA scores

There are many grading systems out there, using different scales, letters, numbers, and so on. Here are a few common ways grades are measured throughout the world:

• A-F: in the US, Canada, Thailand, Saudi Arabia, etc.
• 1-10: in the Netherlands, Colombia, Latvia, Israel, etc.
• 1-5: in Germany, Austria, Russia, Slovakia, Paraguay, etc.
• Percentage: in Kuwait, Belgium, Hungary, Poland, etc.

There are other common methods used by universities to evaluate and rank students. Yet, in order to make these grades translatable – that is, readable to other countries and universities – they will often use an average score system. In Europe, for example, universities can use the European Credit Transfer and Accumulation System (ECTS) to help convert grades easily. This system makes education more transparent and allows students to have their academic grades recognized in different European countries.