A 72% means very different things depending on where you study — a solid 2:1 in the UK, a B in the US, and a strong 1.x in Germany. This converter takes a single percentage and shows its equivalent across ten grading systems at once, so you can translate a mark for applications or credit transfer in seconds.
How it works
Most scales here use published percentage bands. The US, UK, Australian, French, Canadian, Dutch, Spanish, and ECTS scales each map ranges of percentage to a letter or band and a grade point. Two scales are formula-based:
German (modified Bavarian, for pass marks 50–100):
grade = 1 + 3 × (100 − percentage) / (100 − 50)
clamped to 1.0 (best) … 4.0 (lowest pass); below 50 → 5.0 fail
Indian CGPA (10-point approximation):
cgpa = percentage / 9.5 (rounded to two decimals)The percentage is placed into every band table and run through both formulas, and all results display together.
Example
Enter 85 and you will see roughly: US A / 4.0, UK First, German ≈ 1.9, Australian HD, French ≈ 16/20, Indian CGPA ≈ 8.95, and ECTS A.
Scale-by-scale quirks to know
German grading runs counter-intuitively: lower is better. A 1.0 is the top grade (“sehr gut”), 4.0 is the lowest pass (“ausreichend”), and 5.0 is a fail. A percentage in the 85–100 range typically maps to a German grade around 1.0–1.5. Students applying to German graduate programs from other countries are sometimes surprised that their strong percentage marks do not translate to a 4.0 GPA equivalent — the scale is simply inverted.
UK Honours degrees use bands (First, 2:1, 2:2, Third, Pass, Fail) rather than grade points. A First is generally awarded from around 70% upward, a 2:1 from 60–69%, a 2:2 from 50–59%, and a Third from 40–49%. Some universities publish their own specific thresholds which differ slightly from these conventions, so a percentage near a boundary (e.g. 69 or 59) warrants checking with the specific institution.
ECTS grades (A through F) are designed to be based on the rank distribution of a cohort rather than fixed percentage bands. The shorthand used here — A for roughly 90+, B for 80–89, and so on — is commonly cited but is not the original statistical design. When an EU institution computes an official ECTS transcript, they may use their own cohort ranking rather than any fixed percentage cutoff.
Indian CGPA calculation varies between universities. The widely-used approximation of dividing the percentage by 9.5 matches the Anna University formula but differs from the VTU, Mumbai University, and other schemes. If precise conversion is required for a visa or application, contact the receiving institution for their accepted conversion method.
Notes
These are approximations for comparison only. Conversion is never exact across systems, and the authoritative mapping is always the receiving institution’s own.