Grading Chart: Printable Score Chart

Reading the chart: a worked example

Set the total to 25 questions and look at the first few rows.

On a 25-question test, each wrong answer costs exactly 4 percentage points. That step size shrinks as the test gets longer, which is why a 50 or 100-question chart has finer gradations near common letter-grade cutoffs.

Printing and grading a full stack efficiently

Generate the chart once for your assessment's question count, print it, and keep it at your grading desk. For each paper, count only the wrong answers, then read the row that matches. This is faster than recalculating a percentage by hand for every student, especially across a stack of 20 or more identical assessments.

If some answers deserve partial credit rather than a full miss, tick half-point mode before printing. The chart then lists every half-point score between whole numbers, which our guide on easy grader with half points covers with verified tables and rounding guidance. For grading interactively rather than from a printed sheet, use Easy Grader instead, which adds a live wrong-answer counter on screen.

How to use a grading chart effectively in the classroom

A printable grading chart replaces the physical EZ Grader wheel that teachers have used for decades. The workflow is simple: set the total number of questions on your assessment, generate the chart, and print it. During grading, instead of calculating each paper's percentage individually, you mark the wrong-answer count on each paper and read the corresponding percentage and letter grade directly from the chart.

For a typical 25-question quiz, the chart has 26 rows (0 wrong through 25 wrong). Reading "3 wrong" gives you 88% and a B+ in seconds, without a calculator. For larger assessments — a 50-question test — the chart is longer but the workflow is identical. The time saving compounds across a stack of 30+ papers.

Using the chart alongside Easy Grader

The chart on this page is the static printable version; Easy Grader is the interactive version for grading at a computer or tablet. Use the printable chart when you're grading on paper away from a screen, and Easy Grader when you're at a desk and want a live wrong-count stepper rather than a pre-printed reference.

Custom scale on the printed chart

The chart settings above include three scale options: the standard A+–F reference scale, a simplified A–F scale, and custom cutoffs you set yourself. If your department uses different cutoffs (for example, 95%+ for an A instead of 93%), choose "Custom cutoffs," enter your school's boundaries, and the chart regenerates with the correct letters before you print. The custom grid warns you if the cutoffs aren't in highest-to-lowest order.