Grade average calculator (Serbian scale)
School report and university average
Enter how many of each final grade there are.
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Enter how many of each final grade there are and choose the school year. The calculator gives the average and the overall result under Serbian rules, adding the conduct grade where it counts. Excellent starts at 4.50, very good at 3.50 and good at 2.50. For university it takes a plain, unweighted average of passed exams.
How it works
In Serbian schools 5 is the top grade and 1 is a fail, which surprises parents used to other systems. The average is the sum of final numerical grades divided by how many there are. Year 1 of primary school gets written descriptions instead of numbers. Under the 2024 rulebook (Službeni glasnik RS 10/2024), conduct counts towards the overall result from year 2. The old rule left conduct out in years 1 to 4; pick the earlier rules for a report from that time. Religious education, civic education and other descriptive marks don't count.
The result is set from the exact figure: excellent from 4.50, very good from 3.50, good from 2.50. The two decimals on screen are rounded for readability, but rounding doesn't lift the category. An exact 4.496 shows as 4.50 yet is still below the line. “+1” means raising one final grade by one point, with the same number of subjects.
Worked example
A girl in year 7 has six 5s, six 4s and one 3, with 5 for conduct. That's 14 grades adding up to 62, an average of 4.43 and a very good result. She is one point short of excellent: if one 4 becomes a 5, the sum is 63 and the average exactly 4.50.
A university student has two 10s, four 9s, three 8s and one 7. The average is 8.70.
Questions people ask
What do Serbian school grades mean?
5 is odličan (excellent), 4 vrlo dobar (very good), 3 dobar (good), 2 dovoljan (sufficient, a pass) and 1 nedovoljan (fail). Universities use 6 to 10, with 5 meaning the exam wasn't passed.
Does conduct count from year 2 or year 5?
Under the current rules, from year 2. “From year 5” belongs to the earlier period, when years 1 to 4 had descriptive marks. You can switch between the two in the calculator; year 1 never has a numerical result.
Can 4.50 on screen still mean very good?
Yes, if the exact figure is a fraction below 4.50. The category is decided before the display is rounded. The school's own records are what count officially.
How is a university average calculated?
Here it's a simple average of passed exams from 6 to 10. If your faculty weights grades by ECTS credits, this isn't that weighted average.
Sources
- ZUOV (Institute for the Improvement of Education): rulebooks published in Službeni glasnik RS 10/2024 — checked 13 November 2026
- Rulebook on assessing pupils in primary education, Articles 14 and 19, Službeni glasnik RS 10/2024 (in Serbian) — checked 13 November 2026
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Updated: 13 November 2026