Turkey vs Vietnam Grading System

How does the Turkey grading system work?

Most Turkish universities use a 4.0 GPA scale under YÖK (Higher Education Council) framework.

How does the Vietnam grading system work?

Vietnamese universities use a 10-point scale where 5.0 is minimum pass.

Do Turkey and Vietnam mark to the same standard?

No — and it is the difference in marking culture, not the arithmetic, that makes a direct comparison mislead. Here is how each country actually uses its own scale.

What a good grade means in Turkey

The doubled-letter system is the thing worth explaining on an application, because AA and BA look like typographical oddities rather than distinct grades to an admissions officer unfamiliar with them. On substance, the 4.0 GPA maps closely to the US scale, so a Turkish 3.2 needs little translation — but the accompanying percentage does, since Turkish percentage marking is stricter than American and a 75 is a good result rather than a modest one.

What a good grade means in Vietnam

The 10-point scale is used sparingly at the top: a 9 is uncommon and a 10 essentially never awarded for a whole subject, so a graduating average of 8.0 (Giỏi) already places a student well up their cohort. This is the trap for anyone converting mentally by multiplying by ten — a Vietnamese 7.5 is not "75%, a middling result", it is a solid Khá. Credential evaluators who see Vietnamese transcripts regularly know the distribution; a direct decimal comparison does not.

Will a grade from Turkey get you into Vietnam?

We do not yet hold published entry requirements for Vietnam, so we do not compare your grade against a bar we cannot cite. The conversion above still tells you how your result reads in Vietnam terms.

Turkish 4.0 GPA maps near-directly to US GPA.

What goes wrong converting grades from Turkey to Vietnam?

The pass marks differ — 2.00 in Turkey against 5.0 in Vietnam — so the two scales have different usable ranges and the middle of one is not the middle of the other.

Mistakes specific to Turkey grades

• Assuming AA is a typo for A. It is the top Turkish letter grade, and BA is the one below it rather than a separate subject code.
• Reading the 100-point score as a US percentage. Turkish percentage marking is stricter, so a 75 is stronger than it looks.
• Quoting the GPA and percentage as if they were independent results. They describe the same performance twice.

What should you do next, applying from Turkey to Vietnam?

1. Check the course, not the country. Entry requirements are set per programme and revised every cycle. We hold no published national bar for this destination, so the course page is the only figure that binds.
2. Check whether an evaluation is even required. Unlike the US and Canada, Vietnam universities commonly assess foreign transcripts in-house. Confirm on the course page before paying for a report you may not need.
3. Get your documents moving early. Universities normally require your transcript sent directly by your institution rather than as a copy from you, which takes longer than most applicants expect.
4. Read both systems in full. How Turkey grading works · How Vietnam grading works

What do these grading terms mean?

GPA (Grade Point Average)

The US way of expressing an overall grade, on a 0–4.0 scale where 4.0 is the top — so a 4.0 is roughly what a 90–100% or a First Class would be elsewhere.

Percentage scale

A 0–100 marking scale — but the numbers are not comparable across countries: 70% is an outstanding result in the UK and a modest one in India.

Transcript

The official document from your university listing every subject you took and the grade you got — not the same as your degree certificate, and universities abroad want both.

Credential evaluation

A paid report from an approved company that restates your foreign qualification in local terms, which many US and Canadian universities require before they will assess you.

Degree classification

A named band your final result falls into — First Class, 2:1, Distinction — used across the UK, Ireland, Nigeria, India and much of the Commonwealth instead of a single number.

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