Grade average for the grant: entry grade, weighting, excellence
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Pick your year. In year one, enter your upper secondary average and your university entrance exam (PAU) grade; from year two, last year's average and your field: you get the grade the grant looks at and the excellence amount.
Example, not your result yet· change a figure to see yours
Your entry grade for the grant
7.6
It reaches the 5 the call requires for a grant in year one.
| Working | 0.6 × 8 + 0.4 × 7 |
| Excellence | No excellence: 0.4 points short of €50 |
No field coefficient applies in year one.
| Grade | Amount |
|---|---|
| 8 – 8.49 | €50 |
| 8.5 – 8.99 | €75 |
| 9 – 9.49 | €100 |
| 9.5 or more | €125 |
Prepared by Radif Partners · Method · Figures re-read in the BOE and the call on 8 November 2026
The grant uses your grade in three ways: to check the academic requirement, to award the excellence amount and to share out the variable amount. In the first year of a degree the grade is the university entry grade, which the call works out as 0.6 times the upper secondary average plus 0.4 times the entrance exam (PAU) grade, counting only core and compulsory track subjects: an 8.4 upper secondary average and a 7.1 exam give 7.88. From year two it is last year's average, weighted by credits and counting fails and no-shows, which score 2.5 points (article 22). For excellence, from the second year of a degree and in the first year of a master's, the grade is multiplied by 1.17 in engineering and architecture, 1.11 in sciences and 1.05 in health sciences. From 8 you get €50; from 9.5, €125.
The credit-weighted average
Article 22 of the call weights each subject by its credits: multiply each grade by the subject's credits, add up and divide by the total countable credits. Example with 30 credits: a 9 in a 6-credit subject, a 7 in another of 6, a 6 in one of 12 and a no-show in one of 6, which counts as 2.5 under the call. The average is 6.10, not the simple mean of the four grades.
| Subject | Credits | Grade | Points |
|---|---|---|---|
| A | 6 | 9.00 | 54.00 |
| B | 6 | 7.00 | 42.00 |
| C | 12 | 6.00 | 72.00 |
| D (no-show: counts 2.5) | 6 | 2.50 | 15.00 |
| Total | 30 | 6.10 | 183.00 |
From year two: are you passing enough?
Example, not your result yet· change a figure to see yours
Your academic requirement
90%
| Result | Meets it |
| Percentage required | 90% |
| Field base | 90% |
The excellence amount
It is awarded with full enrolment up to threshold 3. The amounts come from Royal Decree 179/2026. The field coefficient applies from the second year of a degree and in the first year of a master's: a 7.5 in engineering becomes 8.775 and earns €75; the same 7.5 in Law earns nothing.
| Grade | Amount |
|---|---|
| 8 to 8.49 | €50 |
| 8.5 to 8.99 | €75 |
| 9 to 9.49 | €100 |
| 9.5+ | €125 |
Each course, its grade
In higher VET, the first year uses the grade from the second year of upper secondary, the access test or the intermediate VET course; in upper secondary and intermediate VET, the last year of compulsory school or the previous course. In the first year of a master's, the average of the qualifying studies counts; in the second, that of the first year. For the minimum requirement, the share of credits passed matters more than the grade: see the academic requirements page. Your grade also weighs in the share-out of the variable amount, but there it is compared with the top ten per cent of your field.
Three uses of the same grade
Your grade counts three times, under different rules. For the minimum requirement, 5.00 is enough in first years. For excellence, the band matters, from 8.00, with the field coefficient where it applies. And in the variable-amount formula your average is divided by the grade of the top ten per cent of students in your field, fails included, so every tenth of a point adds something even without changing band. That is why sitting every exam pays: a no-show drags the average down to 2.50 for that subject.