Swedish grades

As many of you I have also applied to oxbridge, namely engineering at Girton.
I would like to know, if any of you have a hunch, how my grades would be looked upon compared to A-levels.

In Sweden you get grades in around 10 courses per year summarizing to 30 grades at graduation.
The grades are IG-not enuf, G-decent, VG-very good and MVG-much very good (nice translation =))
Anyway I have 22 MVGs and 1 VG in french (which I will nullify by replacing with Italian) I have predicted another 8 MVGs and 1 VG music (which will also be nullified)
Resulting in a currently predicted (19.8/20) (truly 20/20)
IG=0, G=10, VG=15 and MVG=20 then you just take the average.
Usually G is 50-60%, VG is 80% and MVG is 90-95% (mostly 90).

I have the feeling they would just look at my grades and say, well it should be sufficient, since we have so many courses we don't really specialize (even though my course is a scientific one).
Will my grade be seen as something going for me, somethinging really helping or just a requirement.

So far I've hade three conditionals from bath, manchester and cardiff requiring MVG in physics and maths.

Yes one shouldn't dwelve to deeply into the chances of acceptance, but I just want to see how our grading systems compare...

comment away!

Reply 1

Acaila

One thing seems to be true about Cam, grades get you to interview, but they're not everything. Depends on the rest of your application really, although you seem to have excellent grades (not that I'm an expert on swedish grades).

Where abouts in Sweden are you from out of interest?

Reply 2

ponjavic

Malmo down south, just east of copenhagen, well I heard that almost everbody gets an interview and I also saw some order of importance looking similar to the following:

Predicted
Grades
Interview
Reference
PS

Something like that, so grades should be very important...

And where are you from? =D

AHA!
Biography:
Obsessed with a certain hairy Swedish rock band

therefore the sudden interest :P

Reply 3

Acaila

{tries to look innocent}

Do you know who the band are then? :biggrin:

I'm from up in the north of Scotland :smile:

Everyone who applies will have pretty much perfect grades, but not everyone will shine at interview so that separates the men from the boys as it were. :smile:

Reply 4

ponjavic

Bah then i'm prolly screwed, and will take my growing up to another university.

As I'm mostly listening to dancehall and modern roots (reggae) no, I prolly don't know who they are :P