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Academic grading in Portugal

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In Portuguese middle-schools, a five-point grading scale is used, where:

  • 5 (very good or excellent) is the best possible grade (90-100%),
  • 4 (good) (70-89%),
  • 3 (satisfactory) indicates "average" performance (50-69%),
  • 2 (unsatisfactory) (20-49%),
  • 1 (poor) is the lowest possible grade (0-19%).

In high-schools and universities, a 20-point grading scale is used. When it is the case of the final grade of an academic degree, each grade is assigned a qualitative mark by degree (depending on the university, the students have at most a final grade of 16 or 17, being almost impossible for students to have a final score between 18-20): [1]

Grade Qualification
20

17.5
Excellent
17.4

15.5
Very good
15.4

13.5
Good
13.4

9.5
Sufficient
9.4

3.5
Weak
3.4

0
Poor

References

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  1. ^ "Decreto-Lei n.o 42/2005 de 22 de Fevereiro" (PDF). Diário da República Eletrónico (in Portuguese). 22 February 2005. p. 1494. Retrieved 21 July 2015.