🇰🇿 Kazakhstan GPA Calculator: Score to Letter Grade and GPA

The letter, score and points are not left to each university. They are fixed in Appendix 2 to the Ministry of Education and Science’s Order No. 152 on the credit technology of education, and the Typical Rules for higher-education organisations (Order No. 595) tell universities to grade on the same table. That is why a B+ means 85–89 and 3.33 points at almost any Kazakh university, and why the transcript shows the score, the letter and the points side by side.

Two universities publish something different. Nazarbayev University keeps the same bands and points but has no FX: everything below 50 is an F. When a course is retaken, only the last attempt counts toward the final CGPA. KIMEP University runs a North American scale instead. Its A+ covers 90–100 and is worth 4.33, A is 85–89, A− is 80–84, and D− (50–52) is the lowest pass. So an 85 at KIMEP is an A (4.0) where the national table makes it a B+ (3.33). If your transcript comes from either university, read it with that university’s own key rather than the converter above.

Kazakhstan splits a fail in two. An FX (25–49) means you came close: you may resit the final exam once, on the date in your university’s academic calendar, without taking the course again. An F (0–24) means enrolling in the course again, attending it, doing all the coursework and then sitting the exam. FX carries 0.5 points on the official table, so on paper it is not quite a zero, but what matters in practice is the resit it allows. The national rules do not say whether the resit is paid or how the first attempt is treated in your GPA; your university’s academic policy does.

Universities may also run a summer semester of at least six weeks (not in the final year), and the rules list raising your GPA among its purposes. The diploma supplement then shows your latest grade for each course.

The honours diploma (диплом с отличием, the “red diploma”) has a hard bar. You need a GPA of 3.5 or above and a course grade of C+ or better in every subject, so a single C, C−, D+ or D rules it out. You also need an A or A− in the final attestation, and no resits or repeated exams at any point. That last condition is the one students miss: fixing an FX can still leave you with a high GPA, but not with honours.

A worked example with three courses:

• 5 credits at 92: A−, 3.67 points
• 5 credits at 78: B−, 2.67 points
• 3 credits at 96: A, 4.0 points

(5 × 3.67 + 5 × 2.67 + 3 × 4.0) ÷ 13 = 43.70 ÷ 13 = 3.36. To average a whole transcript, choose the 4.00 scale in the CGPA calculator; it uses the same points as the Kazakh table (A− 3.67, B+ 3.33). It has no FX option. If an FX still stands on your record, enter it as F and remember that the official GPA is slightly higher.

Abroad, the useful fact is that the points already match the plus/minus values US colleges use, so the GPA on a Kazakh transcript reads almost directly as a US GPA. The percentages do not match. The College Board-style chart most US converters use starts a B at 83 and fails anything under 60. On the Kazakh table an 82 is a B (3.0), where that chart says B− (2.7); a 70 is a C+ (2.33), not a C− (1.7); and a 55 is a pass (D+), not an F. Quote the letter grades and GPA your transcript prints, not your raw scores run through a US converter. FX has no US equivalent, so a credential evaluator such as WES decides how to count it. For Europe, one Kazakh academic credit is defined as one ECTS credit, so credit totals carry across unchanged.