Mindanao State University

Office of the Assistant Vice-Chancellor of the Academic

Affairs
(External Units)
Marawi City

Unified Grading System in All Subject

Areas for the K to 12 Basic Education
Program of MSU External Units and
Honor Students and Academic
Awardees

Speaker: ANALYN P. GURO, MSciEd

1. Assessment in the classroom is aimed at helping students
perform well in relation to the learning standards. Learning
standards comprise the content standards, performance
standards, and learning competencies that are outlines in the
curriculum.

a. Content Standard is identified as a set of

essential knowledge that answer the question
“What should the learner know?”

b. Performance Standard is described the abilities

and skills that learners are expected to demonstrate in
relation to the content standards and integration of
21th-century skills.
2. MSU External Units crafted and anchored the implementation
of the K to 12 Curriculum from the Department of Education.
With this, the grading system is not quite far from the grading
system implemented from the DepEd.

3. Quarterly Assessments. in the K to 12 Curriculum is

anchored DECS Memorandum No. 2 series of 1993 that each
grading period or quarterly assessment is equivalent to
approximately ten (10) weeks or fifty (50) school days. Final
examination shall be scheduled on the last week of classes for
non-graduating students and two weeks before the last day of
classes for those graduating including all pilot sections.
4. Grading System. In a grading period, there is one
Quarterly Assessment but there should be instances for the
students to produce Written Work and to demonstrate what
they know and can do through Performance Tasks.

3. Quarterly Assessments. in the K to 12 Curriculum is

anchored DECS Memorandum No. 2 series of 1993 that each
grading period or quarterly assessment is equivalent to
approximately ten (10) weeks or fifty (50) school days. Final
examination shall be scheduled on the last week of classes for
non-graduating students and two weeks before the last day of
classes for those graduating including all pilot sections.
The following are the steps in computing the
Quarterly Final Grades:

A. Grades from all student work are added up. This

results in the total for each component: Written
work, Performance tasks and Quarterly Assessment.
Raw Scores from each component have to be
converted to the percentage score. This is to ensure
that values are parallel to each other.
 B. The sum for each component is converted to the
percentage score. To compute the Percentage Scores in
Written Work, Performance Task and Quarterly
Assessment, divided the learner’s total raw score by
the highest possible score of the component and
multiply it by the weight of the component of the
particular learning area.

Percentage Score (PS) = x weight of the component

Table for the Weight of the components for Grades 7 to
10 shown below

Grade English,
Components Filipino, AP EsP Science Math MAPEH TLE
levels Arabic

Written
Work
30% 40% 20%
Performance
7 to 10 Tasks
50% 40% 60%

Quarterly
Assessment
20% 20% 20%
D. For the Final grade both Arabic and EsP, take 60%
from the Arabic and 40% from EsP.

Example.

The first quarter grade of Arabic is 87 and EsP is 86,

add the 60% of Arabic (87) which is 52.2 and 40% of
EsP (86) is 34.4. So, the final grade both Arabic and
EsP (52.2+34.4) is 86.6
.
 For MAPEH,
individual grades are given to area, namely, Music, Arts,
Physical Education and Health. The quarterly grade for
MAPEH is the average of the quarterly grades in the four
areas. Quarterly Grade for MAPEH.

QG for MAPEH =
 

The average for the Quarterly Grades (QG)

produces the Final Grade.

• Final QG by Learning Area

 Honors Students and Academic Awardees

Based on the Revised Student Handbook (S.Y. 2002 -2003) of the

Office of the Assistant Vice Chancellor for the Academic Affairs
(External Units), Students who earned a general average earned a
general average in academic performance ranging from 93.001 or
better are entitled to “High Honors” while those who earned a
general average of 85.000 to 93.000 are awarded “With Honors”,
provided they meet from the following requirements:

1. He must have no failing grade in any grading period and has no

final grade below 80% in all year levels;
2. He must have done the entire work of the of the first to fourth
year in the External Unit where he is graduating. First year
transferee will be considered if he earned first grading grades in the
same school;

3. He must have completed the curriculum within the prescribed

length in years (e.g. within for consecutive years); and

4. He must have conducted himself in conformity with the school

rules, regulation and policies.
The final grades shall be computed two (2) weeks
before the end of the current academic year.

The designation “BEST” in each subject area

shall only be rewarded to COMPLETER students.
There must be only ONE recipient of the same
academic award per subject.
for Listening