DGS Net and ÖBP Calculator

Enter your correct and wrong answers in the Quantitative and Verbal sections and your associate-degree grade average: your nets, your associate-degree success score (ÖBP) and what the ÖBP adds to your SAY, SÖZ and EA scores follow the 2026-DGS guide exactly.

Last updated: 28 Oct 2026

Quantitative net28.00Verbal net 38.50 · ÖBP 60.000

Quantitative net (30 correct, 8 wrong, 12 blank)28.00
Verbal net (40 correct, 6 wrong, 4 blank)38.50
Total blank16
Associate-degree success score (ÖBP)60.000

ÖSYM DGS guide: ÖSYM 28 Oct 2026

Score types, coefficients and ÖBP contribution (2026-DGS guide, Table A) 3

How it is calculated

The Vertical Transfer Exam (DGS) is held by ÖSYM for graduates of vocational and open-education associate-degree programmes moving on to bachelor’s programmes; it is a single aptitude test with a quantitative and a verbal section (2026-DGS guide, 1.3, 3.1). Scoring is in section 4 of the guide: in each section a quarter of the wrong answers is taken from the correct ones to give the raw score; raw scores become standard scores on a 50/10 scale with that year’s mean and SD (4.1); the associate-degree grade average gives the associate-degree success score, ÖBP (4.2); and the standard scores and the ÖBP are multiplied by the coefficients in Table A and added to give the SAY, SÖZ and EA DGS scores (4.3). Unlike ALES or YKS, the sum is not moved to another scale. The nets and the ÖBP are exact. A standard score needs that year’s test mean and SD; ÖSYM last published these for DGS for 2017-DGS, when the tests had 60 questions, and since then only placement statistics. The page therefore does not estimate the DGS score; it shows exactly what the ÖBP adds to it. The formula does fix this much: a candidate with both standard scores at 50 gets 180 from the exam in all three score types, plus the ÖBP part. No DGS score is calculated for a candidate without at least 1 raw point in both sections (4.3). Questions cancelled after the exam are left out and the remaining questions are re-weighted; in 2026-DGS one Quantitative question was cancelled.

Formula

Net = C − W ÷ 4 · ÖBP = grade (out of 100, at least 50) × 0.8 · DGS-SAY = 3 × SS(Quantitative) + 0.6 × SS(Verbal) + 0.6 × ÖBP

C is the number of correct, W of wrong answers; blanks do not count. SS is a test’s standard score, derived from all that year’s candidates’ nets so that it has mean 50 and SD 10. DGS-SÖZ weighs Quantitative 0.6 and Verbal 3, DGS-EA 1.8 and 1.8; the ÖBP coefficient is 0.6 in all three, 0.45 for candidates placed in a programme with 2025-DGS.

In each section, a quarter of the wrong answers is taken from the correct ones: the net (raw score). The Quantitative and Verbal sections have 50 questions each.
The associate-degree grade average is moved to the 100-point scale in direct proportion (on a 4-point scale, grade × 25); a grade under 50 counts as 50, and the result is multiplied by 0.8: the ÖBP runs from 40 to 80 for grades from 50 to 100.
ÖSYM turns each section’s net into a standard score with the mean and SD of all that year’s candidates; these are known only after the exam and are not published, so this step cannot be done here.
The standard scores and the ÖBP are multiplied by the coefficients in the guide’s Table A and added; the sum is the DGS score itself, with no further scaling. The page gives the part the ÖBP adds to that sum.

Example

Quantitative 30 correct, 8 wrong: net 30 − 8 ÷ 4 = 28. Verbal 40 correct, 6 wrong: net 40 − 1.5 = 38.5. Grade average 3.27 out of 4: on the 100-point scale 3.27 ÷ 4 × 100 = 81.75; ÖBP 81.75 × 0.8 = 65.4. The ÖBP adds 0.6 × 65.4 = 39.24 to the SAY, SÖZ and EA scores; if you were placed in a programme last year, 0.45 × 65.4 = 29.43.

Frequently asked questions

Do wrong answers cost points in the DGS?

Yes. In each section, a quarter of the wrong answers is subtracted from the correct ones; four wrong answers cancel one correct answer. Blank questions do not affect the net (2026-DGS guide, 4.1).

How is the ÖBP calculated?

The associate-degree grade average is taken on the 100-point scale, a grade under 50 counts as 50, and it is multiplied by 0.8; a grade of 50 gives 40, a grade of 100 gives 80. Under the guide every grading scale is moved to the 100-point scale in direct proportion; 3.00 out of 4 is 75 by this rule. ÖSYM takes your grade from YÖKSİS and converts other grading scales by this direct proportion (2026-DGS guide, 4.2); YÖK’s 4-to-100 conversion table gives different values.

How many points is a given net worth?

There is no fixed answer. A net becomes a standard score by where it stands among all that year’s candidates’ nets; ÖSYM has not published the DGS test mean and SD for years, so nobody can turn a net into a score in advance. The net-to-score tables and coefficients found online are not values ÖSYM publishes.

I was placed last year; how does that change my ÖBP?

In the guide’s words, candidates placed in a higher-education programme with 2025-DGS “will have their ÖBP multiplied by the coefficient 0.45” in 2026-DGS (2026-DGS guide, 4.3 and the Table A footnote). The page applies this coefficient in place of Table A’s ÖBP coefficient (0.6), so the ÖBP’s share of the score falls by a quarter.

How do the SAY, SÖZ and EA scores differ?

All three come from the same two standard scores and the ÖBP with different coefficients: DGS-SAY 3 × Quantitative + 0.6 × Verbal, DGS-SÖZ 0.6 × Quantitative + 3 × Verbal, DGS-EA 1.8 × each; the ÖBP coefficient is 0.6 in all three (2026-DGS guide, Table A). Which score a programme admits by is in the preference guide.