This post is a preparation for my next post, wherein I publish my Game Theory paper. I feel compelled to write this first in order to clarify how the Danish grading scale compares internationally, because misunderstandings are most likely to lead to a more negative than necessary impression of my academic level. In other words, I feel that unless I explain this to you first, you will think that I suck more than I do, and I can’t allow that.
When I was in high school, we got graded on the 13-scale, which had ten steps spaced out a little towards the low and high ends in order to give the extreme grades a stronger effect on your average. The reason we have to use a numerical scale in Denmark is that the university prerequisites all depend on your grade average, and it’s hard to calculate averages from a letter scale. About half-way through my BA degree, the universities transitioned to the new 12-scale, which has 7 steps distributed in such a way that the students’ old averages on the 13-scale are fairly close to their averages when converted to the new scale. The 12-step grading scale goes like this:
12 – Excellent
10 – Very good
7 – Good
4 – Fair
02 – Adequate
00 – Inadequate (failed)
-3 – Unacceptable (failed)
The zeroes in front of 0 and 2 are there to prevent you from adding a 1 in front of your grade, as if that really matters in an age where all this stuff is handled digitally.
Now, this new scale was originally implemented to make it easier to compare to the European standard ECTS grading scale, which goes A, B, C, D, E, Fx, F. Unhappily, despite looking almost exactly like the American grading scale, the ECTS scale doesn’t actually map properly to the U.S. one. Here’s how Wikipedia compares the two scales:
ECTS – U.S.
A – A (4.0)
B – A−/B+
C – B (3.0)
D – C+
E – C (2.0)
FX – F
F – F
In other words, if you get a C (a 7) at a Danish university, it will actually be equivalent to a B at an American university. I’m sorry to say you will see why it’s important for me to explain this once I post my Game Theory paper (and the grade I got for it) some time over the weekend 
Lol…
As a fellow dane, I can attest to the truthiness of this post ^^
Of course, even at the best of times, it’s tricky to convey exactly what a grade means…arguing that danish grades are worth more than the international standards is harder yet.
Suffice it to say that Danish Universities are generally tasked with pushing out people with diploma’s in such a fashion that the national average of passing grades is the numerical equivalent of our C(7), whereas for most graduate schools in the US, grades below C(2.0) _don’t even exist_ – it goes straight from C to F.