<p>Could somebody say to me how can we do a comparison between US system and decimal scale, i am confused. </p>
<p>Americans have from F to A, but in my country we have marks from 1 to 10, and often 10 is not considered because is the best! So to get 10 i have to win nobel prize. :)</p>
<p>A is equal to 8 ???</p>
<p>I haven't found nothing. I want to be able to convert my decimal average to gpa.</p>
<p>You don’t need to convert your decimal average to GPA for the admissions committee. The admissions committee will be familiar with the system in your home country.</p>
<p>I have seen that gpa is required in Mit application form.</p>
<p>no you do not translate your grades. If it asks for a 4.0-scale GPA you’ll leave it blank</p>
<p>Edoardo, where r u from?</p>
<p>He is Italian I guess. And no, I’m Italian too, and you absolutely do not need to convert marks. Just leave the GPA request blank.</p>
<p>Sorry for the previous post. I was just not looking. :p</p>
<p>You do not have to convert them, but you may be interested in this resource</p>
<p>[WES</a> Grade Conversion Guide](<a href=“http://www.wes.org/gradeconversionguide/]WES”>Country Resources - WES.org)</p>
<p>That’s a relief to know, I was fairly curious about how the hell I’d translate my grades to GPA (it doesn’t help that in Ireland a pass is a 40% and an A is a 70%, I’m an A student and on job applications fpr non-Irish employers, they were a bit surprised to see my grades as they were)</p>
<p>In my country I use a strange 5.0 GPA scale, I simple made sure to explain it to them how it works in the transcript. That’s pretty much it, just explain them how it works and they’ll figure out the rest.</p>
<p>@jjavdm: I am italian. Italian system of school is very strange…</p>
<p>^I think it’s one of the best in the world though.</p>
<p>I don’t know, it is one of the best system for people that don’t want to study. Italian system school is open and it doesn’t make difference but i prefer to choose my subjects and have the sport linked with the school.
So i think that American system is better than italian for people that want to do more. Another thing that i don’t like about italian system is the decimal scale. We have marks from 1 to 10 but 10 rarely is considered. I have never met a person with an average of 10 ( it is impossible).</p>
<p>Well, of course it’s impossible, it IS ‘perfect’ score after all =P</p>
<p>I prefer being able to distinguish between 8.5 and 8.8 than just everybody having As though. But I’m sure that’s just preference.</p>
<p>It’s kind of like comparing ACT and SAT lol</p>