English Language & Usage Asked on July 7, 2021
Say I attended high score in country A, where students are given grades in the form of letters (A–F). I want to attend university in country B, where high school grades are in the form of numbers, say 1–20. I will be required to transform my grades to their equivalents in country B’s system.
What is this process called?
I almost have everything ready for my university application, I just need to proceed with the ____________ of my grades.
The process of taking grades from one grading scale and changing them to match another grading scale is commonly called grade conversion.
Saying you're going to convert your grades is fine and easily understood. Trying to find a more specific word might actually make it harder to understand what you mean.
I almost have everything ready for my university application, I just need to convert my grades.
If you want to be more specific you can say
...I just need to convert my high school grades to the scale used by X_University.
This is actually something that happens not just from one country to another but even within a single country for different schools. In the US there are many different grading systems in use, and converting grades from one system to those of another is a common requirement. Many schools provide formulas charts or spreadsheets to help with this, and there are online tools like this one specifically for converting between grading systems in different countries.
Correct answer by barbecue on July 7, 2021
All three of your suggestions are valid, but all three would require a little more explanation ("Conversion? from what to what?"). For instance: "... I just need to proceed by converting my grades from letters to numbers."
Answered by Andy Bonner on July 7, 2021
The word I was looking for is equivalence or equivalency (they seem to be synonyms according to the American Heritage Dictionary). I found these words in several places on the internet.
On the United Arab Emirates Ministry of Education website,
Request for equivalence of grade 12 certificates for a foreign curriculum
On the Spain Ministry of Education website,
Brochure on the procedure for equivalence of qualifications and degrees
On the United Arab Emirates ministry of education website (again),
Required documents to apply for certificate equivalency
On the World Education Services website,
Degree Equivalency Tool
Answered by hb20007 on July 7, 2021
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