Spain rebuilds your school record with a formula, and there are two different formulas. One keeps your grade almost intact. The other compresses ten years of school reports into a two-point band, and hands the rest of your access grade to the PCE.
Before anything else
Your access grade is 10 points. Where you went to school decides who fills them.
EU and EHEA systems, the International Baccalaureate, European Schools and countries with an agreement with Spain.
All 10 points can come from your school record. The exams are there to push you higher.
Every other school system, including most of Latin America, Africa and Asia.
Your school record stops at 6 points, and 4 of those are given to everyone. The exams carry the rest.
Four students, one school report
Aoife, Liam and Grace finished school with an identical average. Noah finished more than two points below them. Watch what the route and the exams do to all four.
Aoife, from Ireland
Accreditation · school record 9.4 / 10
Two PCE at 8, both weighted 0.2. Her school record arrives intact and the exams add 3.2 on top.
Liam, from Scotland
Homologation + PCE · school record 9.4 / 10
Four PCE at 8. Identical school record to Aoife's, but on Door B it is worth only 1.9 points of his 9.1.
Grace, from the USA
Homologation + PCE · school record 9.4 / 10
Four PCE at 5. A brilliant school record does not save an average exam session. She finishes 2.7 points behind Aoife.
Noah, from Australia
Homologation + PCE · school record 7.0 / 10
Four PCE at 8. A weaker school record than Grace's and a much better result, because the exams carry the weight.
Sworn translations, apostilles and consular fees add up. Find out which route your education system follows before you spend money on documents one of the two routes may not need.
If your system accesses through accreditation, homologating does not raise your grade. It is a separate procedure for a separate purpose, and starting it out of order costs you months.
Four points of your access grade come only from your four best PCE results. Choosing subjects late, or choosing them for comfort instead of weighting, is the most expensive mistake we see.
The same subject can be worth 0.2 at one university and 0.1 at another for the same degree. Check the table for your exact destination before you register for exams.
The two subjects that count for weighting are the two that contribute most, not the two with the highest marks. A 6 weighted at 0.2 gives you 1.2 points. A 9 weighted at 0.1 gives you 0.9.
Every calculation on this page is a guide, not a resolution. UNEDasiss and your destination university have the final word on your file.
We work with students from the UK, Ireland, the USA, Canada, Australia and more than twenty other countries. Before you spend anything, we tell you which of these six points applies to your file.
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If four points of your access grade come from the PCE, this is where you get them. What the exams are, and which subjects are worth sitting.
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Your grade is one of eight steps. See where it sits between the language requirement, the homologation file and the student visa.
Read moreIt changes which formula is applied to you, and that formula compresses your school record. On the homologation route your access grade is 0.2 × your school record + 4 + 0.1 × your four best PCE results. That means a perfect 10 contributes 6 points and a 5 contributes 5. Your school years, however good they were, can never be worth more than 6 of the 10 points. The remaining 4 come only from your PCE.
No. If your education system accesses through homologation, it is a requirement and there is no way around it. What you should avoid is starting a homologation before you know whether your system could have accessed through accreditation instead. Check the route first. That single call is worth more than any document you can pay for.
Admission grade = access grade + a × P1 + b × P2, with a ceiling of 14. P1 and P2 are your two best-contributing PCE subjects, and a and b are weighting parameters of 0.1 or 0.2 published by each university for each degree. This part of the formula is the same for every country.
Accreditation covers EU and EHEA education systems, Ireland included, plus the International Baccalaureate, European Schools and countries with a reciprocity agreement with Spain. Homologation covers everything else, which includes the UK, the USA, Canada and Australia. There are exceptions, and your own school history can move you between routes, so confirm your case rather than assuming it from your passport.
Your access grade caps at 10 and your admission grade caps at 14. Both routes reach 14. The difference is how much work your exams have to do to get you there.
No. Everything on this page is a guide, built from the formulas UNEDasiss applies. Your real conversion depends on your previous studies and on your destination university, and only UNEDasiss and that university can confirm it. We use these numbers to plan with you, then we check your file against the official sources.
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