In China, for most of the universities and colleges, and most of the high schools, the grading system is divided into five categories:
- A: Excellent (85-100%, 优秀)
A :90-100% A-:85-89%
- B: Good (75-84%, 良好)
B :80-84% B-:75-79%
- C: Satisfactory (65-74%, 中等)
C :70-74% C-:65-69%
- D: Pass (60-64%, ji-ge, "及格")
- F: Failure (0-59%, bu-ji-ge, "不及格")
(some colleges may group the last two grades D and F into one grade called "Bottom", 0-64%, "下")
Besides the grading system and the 100 percentage based marks, there is another form of assessment based on which one course is marked simply as "Qualified/Failed" (“合格/不合格”). The "Qualified" here is different from "Pass", since "Qualified" doesn't indicate anything in ranking and doesn't have its corresponding percentage marks, though a few schools would translate "合格" into "Pass" automatically while an English transcript is required.
In Peking University, which is the best university in China, there is another grading system with a different formula.
That is
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is the genuine score in percentage. If the genuine score is below 60, then the GPA is 0.