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# What do the marks and overall score mean?

> The four overall marks a coach can give and the 0–10 overall score on an evaluation.

<Note>
  **Must know**

  * A **Retry** mark does **not** award achievements — only **Pass**, **Excellent**, and **Satisfactory** do.
  * The **overall score** is a 0–10 value Uplifter calculates from the skill results. You don't type it in, and the number isn't shown in the coach portal — it surfaces to admins and to the athlete's family.
  * The overall mark is separate from each skill's individual pass/fail result.
</Note>

Every athlete on an evaluation gets one **overall mark** plus an **overall score** — two different things.

**The overall mark** is your verdict for the athlete on that evaluation. There are four:

* **Excellent**
* **Pass**
* **Satisfactory**
* **Retry**

When you submit from a class, Uplifter pre-sets each athlete to **Pass** or **Retry** based on how many of the template's skills they passed out of the ones you actually attempted, checked against the template's completion rule. (The required-vs-optional distinction only affects whether the evaluation earns a badge, not this suggestion.) You can change any mark before submitting, and when editing a saved evaluation you can pick any of the four. **Retry** flags an athlete who needs another go — and it's the one mark that won't earn a badge.

**The overall score** is a normalized 0–10 number Uplifter works out from the athlete's skill results — averaging each scored skill's contribution, whatever its scoring type. A passed pass/fail skill contributes full marks, a point-scale skill scales between its min and max, and so on. Because it's calculated, the score always reflects what you actually recorded and stays consistent across athletes.

So the mark is the human call and the score is the math. You'll see each athlete's **mark** in the coach portal — on their evaluation history — but the numeric overall score isn't shown there; it surfaces to your admins in the dashboard and to the athlete's family in their portal.

**Related:** [What do the scoring types mean?](/coaches/coach-athletes-evaluations/scoring-types-explained) · [What happens when an athlete earns a badge?](/coaches/coach-athletes-evaluations/athlete-earns-achievement) · [How do I score athletes during a class?](/coaches/coach-athletes-evaluations/score-athletes-during-class)