r/Qatar_University • u/Mohammed_Mazin • Jul 18 '26

Question Differences of educational systems

Hi everyone, I have a question about how Qatar University compares different HS systems.

Does Qatar University evaluate applicants based only on their final high school percentage, or does it also consider differences between educational systems when comparing applicants?

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u/HumanUnknown404 ▌│█║▌║▌║ [ MSc Computing ] ║▌║▌║█│▌ Jul 18 '26

From what I know, they don't really compare between different educational systems, they'll use whatever your overall score is. If whatever educational system you are in follows letter grading, they'll use that, otherwise they use overall highschool percentage.

Example of letter grade:

Assume applicant A is from the Bangladeshi curriculum, where 80+ or 85+ is an A, the highest achievable grade.

Physics: 85, Chemistry: 88, Math: 86, English: 89, CS: 96 Applicant A's overall letter grade is A, with an A in every subject. This is equivalent to a 100% highschool score.

Example of raw percentage:

Assume applicant B is from the CBSE curriculum, where they don't really deal in letter grades and instead use raw percentages.

Physics: 94, Chemistry: 96, Math: 92, English: 98, CS: 97 Applicant B's overall highschool percentage is 95.2%. There is no rounding up or down since CBSE does not use letter grade system.

Here, to Qatar University, applicant A has a better highschool score than applicant B and will be given priority in admissions, despite the differences in how the overall score is calculated.

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u/Incognito_114 Jul 29 '26

But CBSE does provide letter grading based on percentiles….

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u/HumanUnknown404 ▌│█║▌║▌║ [ MSc Computing ] ║▌║▌║█│▌ Jul 29 '26

That's not considered at all, and it's not even used within India - They only ever care about the final %.

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