The internal grading system at Strate is a system of marks between 0 and 20, and the minimum required to be awarded the ECTS credits is 12/20. The credits are awarded after a meeting of the teachers at the end of each semester. Thus the term’s final mark needs to be at least 12 to automatically award the student the credits corresponding to each course. This final mark takes into account the students’ results for each work but also criteria such as their regular attendance, their behaviour and progression, etc. The credits corresponding to a subject cannot be divided: a student gets all the credits or non. With this system, no compensation is possible between the subjects, as the credits are given per course, there is no average mark. In order to pass in the year above, the student needs to have at least 58 credits for the whole year. At the end of the first semester, a student who has not had the credits in one of several classes can be assigned additional works in order to improve their final mark and therefore to get the corresponding credits

At the end of the second semester, the students who have had a mark between 10 and 12 in one or several classes can be allowed to do some additional work in the classes concerned in order to improve their work and get the credits. This decision can only be taken by the academic staff and the teachers concerned, according to the student’s general results. After that, the students with 58 or 58 credits for the whole year are allowed to pass in the year above on a conditional basis: they will have to do additional works in the subjects in which they did not get the credits the year before, with the agreement of the academic staff.