The computer will see your grade now.
Pick your system, enter the grade, and the computer pronounces its equivalent in any of 60+ national systems: honest working equivalences, computed entirely in your browser.
And everywhere else, says the computer
Working equivalence, not a verdictNo official conversion between national systems exists. The computer anchors each scale's best grade and pass line, interpolates between them (the modified-Bavarian method German universities use for foreign grades), and names the band it lands in. Real evaluators review course-by-course - use this to know roughly where you stand, and see how this differs from a WES iGPA evaluation.
Watch what the computer says
A German 1.7 goes in, an A- comes out. This 80-second tour walks through the world's grading scales, the converter, and where its limits are.
How the computer decides
Every scale on this site is stored with its full grade table, its best achievable grade, and its lowest pass. Your grade becomes a position between those two anchors - a 1.7 in Germany is 76.7% of the way from the pass line to perfection - and that position is replayed into the target scale, then snapped to the nearest real grade and classification band. It is the same linear logic as Germany's modified Bavarian formula, generalized to run between any two systems. What it cannot model is grading culture: scales whose tops are barely used (the Netherlands, France, Kenya) convert conservatively, which is exactly why the result names the band and the caveat, not just a number.
Questions the computer gets asked
How do you convert grades between countries?
There is no official universal formula, so honest conversion anchors each system's best grade and lowest pass, places your grade proportionally between them, and maps that position into the target system - the same logic behind Germany's modified Bavarian formula, which real admissions offices use. This converter does exactly that, across every system on GradeKiln, and labels every result a working equivalence.
Is there an official GPA conversion between countries?
No. Credential evaluators (WES, ECE), universities, and ministries each apply their own tables, and they disagree - especially mid-scale, where most grades live. Any site promising THE official conversion is overselling; the honest product is a defensible working equivalence plus the reasons it can wobble.
What is the modified Bavarian formula?
Germany's official method for converting foreign grades: x = 1 + 3 × (best − yours) ÷ (best − lowest pass). It is a linear interpolation between the best grade and the pass line - the generalization this converter applies between any two systems, not just into German.
Why do converted grades sometimes look too low or too high?
Because scales compress differently: a Dutch 8 or a French 14 sits near the top of scales whose upper reaches are barely used, while US transcripts cluster high. Linear interpolation cannot see grading culture - which is why the result card names the band, not just the number, and why evaluators review transcripts course-by-course.
Does WES use this method?
WES converts course-by-course using its own country tables into a US 4.0 - a different, destination-specific approach. For applications that require an official evaluation, use the evaluator the institution names; use this converter to understand roughly where you stand across systems first. The full comparison lives at gradekiln.com/wes-igpa/.
Is this converter free, with nothing uploaded?
Yes. No sign-up, no upload - the computer consults itself entirely inside your browser, and your grades stay on your device.
Every system the computer speaks
81 grading systems, each with its own full calculator.
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