Short answers, pulled from the story.
The Ministry of Education in Afghanistan changed its university passing threshold from 50 percent to 55 percent in 2016. This adjustment affected thousands of students across Kabul and Herat.
Angola mandates that all schools utilize six specific tiers based on student performance percentages. Tier I spans 90 to 100 percent while Tier VI covers scores from 0 to 49.
Lithuania shifted from a Soviet-era five-point scale to a ten-point system in 1993. This change replaced the previous numerical structure with a new standard.
Italian universities maintain a thirty-point exam scale where eighteen is the minimum passing grade while degrees cap at 110 points. Italy introduced descriptive judgments instead of ordinal numbers in December 2020 for primary school assessments.
The University of Mumbai implemented an eight-point GPA starting in the 2012, 2013 academic year. Thai undergraduate studies follow an eight-point scale where 80 to 100 percent yields an A grade worth 4.0 points.