🇨🇿 Czech Republic
This page describes how schools in Czech Republic grade pupils, from the first year of primary school (year 1, about age 6–7) to the end of upper secondary, and how to build the same system in MarkBook. Back to Find Your Country.
Check the current rules
This description comes from public sources (ministry pages, national laws, Eurydice) read in October 2026. Rules change with reforms, and schools often have local rules. Check the current official text for anything your school reports to the ministry.
How pupils are graded
Before year 1: The last year of mateřská škola (age 5-6) is compulsory, but it gives no marks. Some schools have a preparatory class (přípravná třída) for children with deferred school entry. It is also not marked.
| Years | Stage | Scale | Pass | Recipe |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1-5 | Základní škola, 1. stupeň (primary, first stage) | 1-5, 1 best (school may use verbal assessment instead, or a combination) | 4 (dostatečný) | 1 is the best |
| 6-9 | Základní škola, 2. stupeň, or lower years of a víceleté gymnázium (lower secondary) | 1-5, 1 best | 4 (dostatečný) | 1 is the best |
| 10-13 | Střední škola: gymnázium, SOŠ with maturita (4 years), SOU (3 years) (upper secondary) | 1-5, 1 best | 4 (dostatečný) | 1 is the best |
Values in Základní škola, 1. stupeň (primary, first stage)
| Value | Local word | English |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | výborný | excellent |
| 2 | chvalitebný | very good / commendable |
| 3 | dobrý | good |
| 4 | dostatečný | sufficient (lowest pass) |
| 5 | nedostatečný | insufficient (fail) |
The year. Two half-years (pololetí). At the end of January, pupils get a report card or only an extract (výpis). At the end of June, they get the year-end report card (vysvědčení). Promotion is decided at the end of the second half-year.
Averages and rounding. The half-year mark in each subject is set by the teacher from the pupil's work. Decree 48/2005 does not require an arithmetic mean. The average of all compulsory subject marks is used only to decide 'prospěl s vyznamenaním' (average 1.5 or better, no mark worse than 2, behaviour 'velmi dobré'). The decree sets no national minimum number of marks; schools set one in their assessment rules (pravidla hodnocení, part of the school rules).
Passing the year. Overall result on each report card: 'prospěl(a) s vyznamenaním' (passed with honours), 'prospěl(a)' (passed: no 5 in a compulsory subject), 'neprospěl(a)' (failed: a 5, or not assessed at the end of the second half-year), 'nehodnocen(a)' (not assessed at the end of the first half-year). A pupil with a 5 in no more than two compulsory subjects can take a resit exam (opravná zkouška) before a commission, normally in late August. A pupil who has already repeated a year at that stage moves up anyway. In upper secondary, repeating a year needs the head's permission.
Conduct. Behaviour (chování) on the report card: 1 velmi dobré (very good), 2 uspokojivé (satisfactory), 3 neuspokojivé (unsatisfactory). It can be given in words. Separate commendations (pochvala) and disciplinary measures: napomenutí (reprimand), důtka třídního učitele (class teacher's warning), důtka ředitele školy (head's warning). They are recorded but have no legal effect.
Differences between regions or school types. The decrees are national. Each school's own assessment rules (pravidla hodnocení) decide marks or verbal assessment, mark weights, and the minimum number of marks. Some schools (for example alternative schools) use verbal assessment in all years. Multi-year gymnázia start after year 5 or year 7 but use the same scale.
Common practice that is not official. Not official: weighted marks in the Bakaláři or EduPage e-registers (for example test weight 10, small quiz weight 3); 'minus' marks such as 1-, 2- and in-between marks such as 1-2 on current work; percentage-to-mark bands for tests; points systems. Report-card marks must still be whole 1-5.
National exams.
- Jednotná přijímací zkouška (unified entrance exam, CERMAT) (year 9 (also 5 and 7 for 8-year and 6-year gymnázium)): Points per test (Czech language and literature; mathematics)
- Maturitní zkouška - společná (state) část (year 13): Didactic tests scored centrally as a percentage of success, with the result 'uspěl' / 'neuspěl'
- Maturitní zkouška - profilová (school) část (year 13): 1-5 per exam (1 best). Overall: prospěl s vyznamenaním / prospěl / neprospěl
- Závěrečná zkouška (VET final exam) (year 12 (3-year SOU)): 1-5
Words you will meet
známka (mark), klasifikace (classification by marks), slovní hodnocení (verbal assessment), stupeň prospěchu (grade), průměr (average), pololetí (half-year term), vysvědčení (report card), výpis z vysvědčení (extract from the report), celkové hodnocení (overall result), chování (behaviour), výchovná opatření (commendations and disciplinary measures), opravná zkouška (resit exam)
Set it up in MarkBook
Make a scale 'Czech 1-5', lower is better: 1 výborný, 2 chvalitebný, 3 dobrý, 4 dostatečný, 5 nedostatečný (fail). Store points 1-5 so averages can be calculated. Add an optional current-mark variant with minus (1- = 1.5, 2- = 2.5; school-defined). Use two periods (1. pololetí, 2. pololetí). Each period gets current-mark columns with weights, a calculated weighted average shown with 2 decimals as a guide for the teacher, and a teacher-entered half-year mark in whole steps. Add a calculated average of compulsory half-year marks with a flag for 1.5 or better, no mark worse than 2 and behaviour 1, which gives 'prospěl s vyznamenaním'. Make a behaviour scale 1-3 and a verbal-assessment comment column for schools that use slovní hodnocení.
The scales, ready to copy
These are the scales as MarkBook shows them in the scale editor. Build yours with the same grades, descriptions and weights. Each scale links to the recipe that explains it on Set Up Any Grading System.
Czechia · 1–5
Attainment scale for years 1-5 (Základní škola, 1. stupeň (primary, first stage)). Build it in Configuration → Assessment → Attainment scales. Recipe: A scale where 1 is the best mark.
| Grade | Description | Weight | Pass |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | výborný · excellent | 1 | yes |
| 2 | chvalitebný · very good / commendable | 2 | yes |
| 3 | dobrý · good | 3 | yes |
| 4 | dostatečný · sufficient (lowest pass) | 4 | yes |
| 5 | nedostatečný · insufficient (fail) | 5 | no |
Before you rely on this page
Confidence: high
I did not confirm the didactic-test pass percentages for the maturita. Commonly cited values are 44% for Czech and foreign language and 33% for mathematics, but I could not open a source for them. I did not open the text of upper-secondary Decree 13/2005 directly; the upper-secondary details come from Eurydice. I did not confirm the points scale of the unified entrance exam. Reforms: criterion-based verbal assessment has been allowed since 2024/25. The 2021 maturita change moved the Czech written essay and the oral exam to the school (profile) part. I know this from general knowledge and did not check it here. Inspectorate testing alternates with literacy surveys from 2025/26.