Letter Grades and Percentage Equivalents
The University of Lethbridge employs a letter system of grading. It does not record grades as a percentage. On your transcript, these letter grades are converted to a numerical value on a four-point scale (a “Grade Point”) for assessing your overall academic performance (a “Grade Point Average” or “GPA”).
When I submit grades to the University, I use the following table of equivalences:
| University description | Excellent | Good | Satisfactory | Poor | Minimal pass | Failing | ||||||
| Letter | A+ | A | A- | B+ | B | B- | C+ | C | C- | D+ | D | F |
| Percent range | 100-94 | 93-90 | 89-86 | 85-82 | 81-78 | 77-74 | 73-70 | 69-66 | 65-62 | 61-58 | 57-50 | 49-0 |
| Conventional value | 100 | 92 | 88 | 84 | 80 | 76 | 72 | 68 | 64 | 60 | 56 | 49-0 |
| Grade point | 4.0 | 3.7 | 3.3 | 3.0 | 2.7 | 2.3 | 2.0 | 1.7 | 1.3 | 1.0 | 0 | |
You can use the following form fields to work out how many points each grade is worth on a given question:
Comment [5]
Mike (Tue Feb 1, 2011 (15:37:17)) [PermLink]: Thank you for your help by providing the table above!
Mohammad Mallick (Sat Nov 19, 2011 (12:33:13)) [PermLink]: I understood grading system
easily with the help of above tableSmita (Sat Mar 19, 2016 (10:18:34)) [PermLink]: Ithank you for this information. It is a good conversion scheme, but my performance would look worse than what it is if I was in the upper range of the grade. It would be better if gpa was reported as in-between numbers too eg. 3.4, 3.5, 3.6. Thank you.
Jalessa (Sat Dec 16, 2017 (11:39:28)) [PermLink]: Hello, I was just wondering, what if your final percentage was 73.95? Is it rounded up or would it remain at 73? Thank you
Preston (Tue Oct 9, 2018 (00:51:18)) [PermLink]: Very helpful. Thank you.
