How is the passing score of the certificate calculated? Low average certificate score: it’s all over or there is a chance of admission

When going through the procedure of external independent assessment (Ukrainian ZNO), participants often cannot figure out: how to calculate points for the exam and how they are then transformed into an EFA assessment or an assessment of the state final certification (Ukrainian DPA), how these points affect the competitive score upon admission . EDUGET explains.

Test score

When completing a task in the test book, the ZNO participant receives a certain amount of points. It depends on how many tasks and how correctly they were completed. For the exam in each subject you can achieve a different maximum score. How points are calculated for each task, how much time is allotted for completion and how much you can score for the exam - see.

The transfer of points in both cases occurs on the principle of ranking the results of all participants in the educational assessment in this subject. The lowest test score is awarded the lowest score (1 for DPA and 100 for ZNO), and the highest score is awarded the highest score (12 for DPA and 200 for ZNO). The remaining results are evenly distributed between these two indicators.

Only after checking all the works will it be known which DPA and ZNO assessment corresponds to a specific test score. But you can get a rough idea by using the test score conversion tables for last year.

The only difference in this algorithm is that for DPA the lowest value will be 0 points, and for malignancy the lowest value will be the threshold score.

Threshold score

The threshold score is determined only for cancer. This is the minimum number of points with which the exam is considered passed. Before an exam, applicants often ask what the threshold score (or pass/fail score) is for this subject. There is no answer to this question, since the passing score is determined by the expert commission after all the participants’ results have been received. The complexity of the tasks received, the level of results shown by the participants, and other factors are taken into account.

In 2016, the threshold score in Ukrainian language and literature was 23, in mathematics – 9, in the history of Ukraine – 25.

When the threshold score is determined, it is assigned a value of 100, and the maximum number of points scored is 200. The program distributes the remaining results evenly between them.

School Certificate Score

The school certificate score is the arithmetic average of the final grades for the compulsory program subjects and DPA grades (in 3 subjects), rounded to the nearest tenth. To take it into account upon admission, this score should be converted to a scale of 100-200. This is done according to the following scheme:

Table for converting average school certificate scores to a scale of 100-200

For example, if a graduate has 22 annual grades of 231 points, and for 3 DPA subjects he received 10, 11 and 12, then the school certificate score is calculated as follows:

231+10+11+12=264
264:25=10,56=10,6

According to the table for converting points to a scale of 100-200, the school certificate score is 186.

Competition score

The competitive score is the final sum of various scores, multiplied by coefficients, with which the applicant will participate in the competition for a place in a higher educational institution. Consists of ZNO points, school certificate points, and situationally can take into account points for special successes, creative competition. Olympic medalists and members of the Minor Academy of Sciences receive additional points.

Formula for calculating the competition score:

KB=K1*P1+K2*P2+K3*P3+K4*A+K5*OU

The components used mean:

KB – competitive score.
K1, 2, 3, 4, 5 – coefficients by which a certain indicator should be multiplied. They are determined by the university itself. Depending on the importance of the subject for a particular specialty, this coefficient will be higher or lower. But the following conditions must be met:
the coefficient for the ZNO subject must be at least 0.2;
the coefficient for a creative competition cannot exceed 0.25 (0.5 for specialties from the fields “Culture and Art” and “Architecture and Urban Planning”);
the coefficient for the school certificate should be no more than 0.1;
the coefficient for special successes cannot exceed 0.05;
the sum of all coefficients for each specialty is always equal to 1.
P1, 2 – points for ZNO certificates (or entrance exams), P1 – for a certificate in the first subject, this is Ukrainian language and literature, P2 – in the second, this is mathematics or history of Ukraine, or biology (for universities in medical, pharmaceutical and veterinary fields ).
P3 – grade for the third subject of the external examination, entrance exam or creative competition.
A – average school certificate score, converted to a scale of 100-200 points.
OU - a point for special achievements, successful completion of university preparatory courses, if we are talking about specialties, especially those supported by the Ministry of Education.

To obtain the final value, the competitive score is multiplied (balanced) by the following coefficients:

Regional coefficient (RC). Equal to 1.00 for universities in Kyiv, 1.01 – in the cities of Dnepr, Lviv, Odessa and Kharkov, 1.03 – for the cities of Donetsk and Lugansk regions, relocated higher educational institutions, 1.02 – in other cases.
Industry coefficient (IC). Equal to 1.03 if an application with high priority is submitted for certain specialties that are especially supported by the Ministry of Education.
Rural coefficient (RC). Equal to 1.02 for persons registered and educated in rural areas.
First priority coefficient (PFC). Equal to 1.10 for persons entitled to priority enrollment in higher medical and pedagogical educational institutions, and 1.00 in other cases.

Important! The maximum value of the competitive score is 200. If, after balancing, additional points, the competitive score exceeds 200, then it will still be counted as 200.

The reform of Russian education is difficult; the new Minister of the Ministry of Education will have to clean out the Augean stables of education, polluted by supporters of the Bologna, and popularly called “swamp” system of schooling and training of specialists. The Finns at one time realized that the education system that existed in the USSR was really the best in the world and stole it, adapting it to their educational standards. Now the Finnish education system is the best in the world.

However, let’s return to the Russian reform and pay attention to the fact that in 2013, in order to encourage applicants to enroll in colleges, that is, in order to motivate, first of all, graduates of the 9th grade to receive a specialized secondary level education, entrance exams were canceled.

Instead, certificate competitions and passing grades after 9th grade were introduced. Moreover, each, let’s call them by analogy with universities, determines the secondary educational institution for each specialty independently. Therefore, the question of what is the passing score for college after 9 years of schooling sounds ridiculous, as is the case with the question about the average temperature of hospital patients.

Passing score for technical school

College and technical school are twin educational institutions for obtaining SSE after 9 years of school. And paraphrasing Mayakovsky, which of them is more valuable for a quality education, we can say that when they say “college” in a foreign manner, they mean a technical school, when they say “technical school,” they mean a college.

The same as in college, the definition of a passing grade for a technical school is controversial; firstly, you need to clarify what the passing grade is for 9th grade, that is, with incomplete or for a graduate with complete secondary education.

Secondly, in what specialty are you interested in the passing score and, thirdly, you need to indicate a specific technical school.

Because for graduates of the 9th grade, the passing score is set according to the average score of the certificate, somewhere in the range from 3.5 to a maximum score of 5, for graduates with complete secondary education from 130 to a maximum of 200 points of the Unified State Examination result.

As for the passing rates in the specialty, here too the range of knowledge assessments is approximately the same. And if we take individual technical schools, then they can independently set the passing parameters to the lower side of the lower values.

Passing score for medical college

Without going into banal discussions about the humanity and necessity of medical professions, which are always in demand by society, it should be taken into account that secondary medical education can be obtained after the 9th grade.

The passing score for a medical college also depends on specialties such as nursing and midwifery, as well as on the average certificate, which is determined by the educational institution independently, depending on the enrollment and number of applicants per place.

As for other areas that are considered related in medical colleges, the principle for determining the average passing score is the same as for the main specialties.

Until quite recently, medical schools universally followed the requirement that for admission one had to pass exams in biology, as well as in the Russian language.

Now everything has changed and for admission it is necessary to pass a written psychological test to determine whether the applicant’s psychological and physical abilities meet the requirements for a medical specialist.

College passing scores 2017

If we take, for example, any medical college, the passing grade in 2017 is unlikely to differ from previous years. Moreover, there is a possibility that the average passing grade of the certificate and the Unified State Examination result will be lower than the threshold of previous years due to a significant reduction in the number of applicants due to the so-called “demographic hole”, which happened at the beginning of the 2000s. It’s just that in those days, as many children were not born as were born before.

Therefore, such situations are not uncommon, especially in provincial colleges, where passing grades may not be strictly fixed, for example, in cases where 30 applications for 30 places are submitted to a college, then in this case all 30 applicants are accepted. Then the passing grade will be considered the average grade of the certificate with the lowest indicators, or the lowest USE indicator. The main thing here is that the grades are, as they say, adequate to the profile of study, and also correspond to the status, or rather, the indicator that the college gives itself.

The student’s knowledge and work in practical classes are assessed by the teacher using the classic 5-point system.

At the end of each semester, a centralized calculation of the student’s average score is carried out and transferred to a 100-point system.

Students who score from 61 to 100 points receive admission to the test and exam. In addition to the average score, indicators that give penalties and bonuses are taken into account.

The final grade, which is entered by the examiner into the student’s record book after taking the exam, is determined as the arithmetic average of the annual (two-year): rating grade and exam grade (on a 100-point scale) and is converted into a 5-point grade.

Table 1

Converting the average score to a 100-point system

Score on a 100-point scale	Average score on a 5-point scale	Score on a 100-point scale	Average score on a 5-point scale	Score on a 100-point scale

Methodology for calculating the score-rating indicator for 4th and 5th year students of the Faculty of Medicine

For students of the 4th, 5th year of the Faculty of Medicine - 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th semester, it is necessary to use the following calculation model:

The points that a student receives in a discipline in a semester are calculated using the formula:

Рдс = average score for all practical classes in the semester “+” bonuses and “-” fines (see Appendix 2).

The calculation is made every semester (Рдс7, Рдс8, Рдс9, Рдс10).

Rd = Rds7+Rds8 +Rds9 +Rds10

Students who score from 61 to 100 points receive admission to the test and exam.

Course exam for the 5th year of the Faculty of Medicine

Rd = (Rds7,8,9,10 +Rde)

The exam grade, which the teacher puts in the grade book, is calculated using a formula and converted into a 5-point system in accordance with Table No. 2.

Table No. 2

Course exam score

If a student receives an unsatisfactory grade on the exam, then the rating for the discipline in the semester is Rd 7,8,9,10 = Re. Points for retaking the exam are from 61 to 75, regardless of the grade.

The answer to the exam is assessed in accordance with the “Criteria for assessing a student’s answer using a 100-point system” (see Appendix 1.)

This time it turned out that graduates entering universities need to independently calculate the average score of their school certificate. This figure is necessary to calculate the final competitive score. The admissions committees of universities will recalculate and check this average certificate score.

How to calculate the average score of the certificate?

Step 1. Calculate the score on the calculator

The average score of the certificate is calculated on a 12-point scale. Tenths are rounded off. To calculate your score you need to add it up grades in all subjects and than divide the resulting number by the number of items.

Example. We take four items. Their scores were 8, 8, 9 and 12. Add them up and get 37. Divide by 4 (number of items) and get 9.25. So the average score is 9.

It is important to remember that those items for which the entry “exempt” is made are not taken into account in any way.

If the grades in the certificate were given on a five-point scale, then this is also no reason to panic. The Ministry of Education and Science said that you can count like this: “3” corresponds to “6”, “4” corresponds to “9”, “5” corresponds to “12”. If there is no insert for the certificate for objective reasons, then the average score is considered equal to “2”, which is not particularly good. So it’s better not to lose important documents.

Step 2: Trust but verify

Teachers advise that if school teachers were not lazy and calculated the graduates’ scores themselves, and the average score is indicated in the appendix to the certificate, then you must check whether it was calculated using the correct methodology. If it is incorrect, then recalculate and indicate the number that was obtained when submitting applications for admission. A certificate with an incorrect score is still considered valid, but for those who made a mistake - shame and disgrace, and a minus in karma.

Step 3. Where to enter the ball

When submitting applications electronically, the applicant enters the average score in his personal account. Where exactly will become clear during the filling process. If an applicant finds an error in his calculations, he can correct it himself before submitting his first application.

Step 4. How the score is converted

The average score entered into the Unified Database on a 12-point scale is automatically transferred to a 200-point scale according to the table corresponding to the average score of a document on complete general secondary education. See the table below.

Table* of the correspondence between the average score of a document on complete general secondary education, calculated on a 12-point scale, and the value on a 200-point scale

*table taken from the website "Osvita.ua".

The average score of a higher education diploma in Russia may only be required when employing a freshly graduated university graduate in branches of large foreign companies, or less often in domestic giants like Gazprom. In a couple of years, when a young specialist can already indicate experience and length of service in a professional resume, no one will remember about the grades in the insert and no one will check them before hiring. But when entering a master's or graduate school in almost all foreign colleges and universities, GPA - the average score of the diploma - is necessarily taken into account, so it will have to be calculated very carefully.

How to calculate your diploma GPA

The abbreviation GPA (Grade Point Average) denotes the average grade of academic performance derived from the grades received by the student for a certain period. Each university has its own requirements for calculating the GPA. Some institutions ask to calculate GPA for the 3-4th years of study, others - only in certain subjects, others - taking into account all the marks indicated in the insert: final grades for the studied program disciplines, coursework and thesis, module tests and state exams. Therefore, specific parameters must be found out at the university chosen for further education.

How to calculate the average diploma score for European universities

Technically, calculation methods differ radically depending on the country where the university is located.

Germany

First, the average score for the diploma is calculated, then the result is translated into German format - most often according to the Bavarian system using the formula:

The Russian diploma score (N d) is calculated as the usual arithmetic average: the sum of all grades is divided by their number. If the university requires credits to be included in the GPA calculation, then they are evaluated by the highest score accepted at the graduate’s alma mater.

For example: for a standard Russian scale with the highest grade of five and an average diploma score of 4.2, after converting it, it turns out to be 2.2:

Don't rush to despair. The scoring scale in Germany is the opposite of that generally accepted in most universities in Russia: in it, one is excellent, two is good, etc. In medical universities, the passing score is usually set in the range of 1-1.3; for prestigious economic specialties - about 1.7. The lower limit for enrollment in a master's program is 2.5.

Not all German universities use this conversion formula - some develop their own grade transfer schemes.

England

The United Kingdom uses a verbal descriptive rating scale.

How to calculate the average score in a diploma for America

In the USA, a four-point rating scale has been adopted:

Before entering American universities, you must calculate your diploma GPA, taking into account the number of hours of studying the discipline, which are indicated in the application, and after converting Russian grades into the American system.

history (100 hours) - excellent;
social studies (145 hours) - excellent;
philosophy (90 hours) - satisfactory;
theory of translation (85 hours) - excellent;
foreign literature (70 hours) - good.

Calculate “point hours”: 100 x 4 + 145 x 4 + 90 x 2 + 85 x 4 + 70 x 3 = 1710.
Calculate the total number of hours: 100 + 145 + 90 + 85 + 70 = 490.
Calculate GPA: divide the amount of points by the hours spent to obtain them: 1710: 490 = 3.48 ≈ 3.5.

When indicating your GPA on your application for admission, be sure to specify the highest possible score, as it differs for each country. For example: 8.56 out of 10 (8.56 out of 10).

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When entering master's and postgraduate programs at Russian universities, the average diploma score is taken into account only if the candidates showed the same results in the entrance exams.

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