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Academic grading in Israel

This is an article about the grades being used in the country of Israel.

In Israel there are two scales, 0-10 (usually small quizzes, surprise quizzes etc.) and 0-100 (usually exams).

The grading scale is as follows:

10 or 95-100 = מצוין (excellent)

9 or 85-94 = טוב מאוד (very good)

8 or 75-84 = טוב (good)

7 or 65-74 = כמעט טוב (almost good)

6 or 55-64 = מספיק (sufficient)

5 or 45-54 = מספיק בקושי (hardly sufficient)

<4 or <44 = בלתי מספיק/נכשל (insufficient/failed)

In secondary school (grades 7-12), any grade of 54 and below is considered a failing grade.

It's worth mentioning that the Israeli education system does not employ curved grading at any stage (incl. in the academic level).

To compensate for this, most academic institutions require that candidates undergo a psychometric exam, which in Israel provides examinees with an overall score of 200-800, the average being 535 (according to the National Institute of Scoring and Evaluation's [1] report of 2005 results).

As previously mentioned, though, the vast majority of Israeli academic institutions also refrain from grading on a curve. Only certain law faculties use curved grading, and one management faculty recently announced its intention to gradually introduce curved grading at the undergraduate level as well.