How to Translate 1-6 into A-F

Because the German system has six number grades and the American system has only five, if you line up the grades beginning with 1=A+, 2=A, 3=B, 4=C, 5=D, 6=F, the translation of the achievement is more accurate than the way American high schools tend to translate the German 1=A, 2=B, and so forth. An "A+" and "1" denote exceptional performance. An "A" and "2" demonstrate work very well done, and so forth.

German students are discriminated against in terms of GPA translations because the schools do not take SIX number grades into account, nor the qualitative difference between a "1" and an "A." In effect, they assign German students the five lowest letter grades to the six number grades used in Germany.