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Academic grading in Russia
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Academic grading in Russian Empire, Soviet Union, and Russia the most commonly used academic grading system comprises five points, four of which were and still are used most often. The 5 grade system in Russia was established in 1837 and used to this day.[1][2]
In 1819 Russian empire has introduced 12-level military grades. They differed from those used in civil education adopted later.[1]
The system of 5 grades with minor changes has been in use in Russian schools since 1837. Between 1917 and 1935, the Soviet government had tried to implement a radically new evaluation system with no grades at all but it was unable to put it into practice.[1]
In 1950 an attempt was made to introduce + and – qualifiers to make some degree of differentiation between the grades e.g. 4+ is better than 4 but not as good as 5–. Grading varied greatly from school to school, university to university and even teacher to teacher, and tended to be entirely subjective even for courses that lend themselves to objective marking such as mathematics and applied sciences. Even though the grades technically range from "1" to "5", "1" is not very common and is rarely given for academic reasons—in many cases a "1" is given as a result of failure to show up for an exam or to answer any questions. A "2" grade usually means that the student showed little or no knowledge in a subject.[1]
In higher education, most subjects are graded ‘Pass/No pass’ ('Credit/No Credit') (зачёт/незачёт, pronounced "zachòt/nyezachòt"), and the rest are graded on the five-point scale. The 'Pass/No Pass' grades have no official numeric representation. When "zachòt"-type subjects are graded 'Pass/No pass' (sometimes translated as 'Credit/No credit'), this simply represents a student's good/poor knowledge of a subject. "Zachòt"-type subjects are also called "non-exams" due to lack of numerical representations. Each university applies its own standards of the level of knowledge required to pass each course. Students in Russia typically must pass all courses taken in order to graduate.
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Conversion to ECTS
According to MGIMO University the Russian grades have roughly the following correspondence with ECTS:[3]
- 5 equates to A
- 4 equates to B (82–89%) or C (for 71–81% rating)
- 3 equates to D (67–74%) or E (for 60–66% rating)
- 2 equates to F
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