[you've definitely made me feel more optimistic now, thank you! I think it is crazy how they haven't designed a smoother translation of grades system in the EU, especially if they want to attract more! My grades were Physics B (A2), maths C (A2), Biology D (A2), General studies C (A2), Law,D (AS) and I'm currently taking Chemistry distance and achieved grade B at AS and now working to A2 in that so I hope they will look at the school printout of my AS grade and accept it as official as I've not completed the whole thing yet!
How easy do you think it really is to get into programmes in Sweden and Denmark?
Thank you for your time!!
QUOTE=Ronove;52969591]Oh, I didn't even see you'd mentioned an E anywhere - I just said that because it's the lowest passing grade! They will absolutely accept a **** grade at A2 when they only want a pass at AS. Usually you can see what the required GPA was for the last few years on the web page advertising the course. It'll be called the English or Swedish equivalent of adgangskvotient. All I (think I) know is that the Swedish grades go up to 20, and that quite a lot of Swedes get 20, compared to the number of Danes getting the top score in their system (which means the Danes can be a bit grumpy about them applying to Medicine in Denmark). There's something called Eksamenshåndbogen for translating EU grades to Danish ones, I'll have a look in a second to see if there's an indication of what Swedish grades are compared to Danish ones (which will mean I can get an idea of how a Dane would translate English grades into Swedish ones).
Edit: Ok so, I think a vague idea would be: English grade D = Swedish 12, C = 15.7, B/A = 19.78, A* = 19.95
The B/A thing is because the Danish system views an A and a B as the same Danish grade when they come from a system where A* was possible. Obviously in the Swedish system they probably place a B somewhere between 15.7 and 19.78. And they probably don't view an A as 19.78 and an A* as 19.95 - seems too crazily bunched up to actually be the case, but it certainly gives me an idea of why the Danes think the Swedish system is so warped!