Do my high school marks matter?

[Personherebb9]

TESU doesn't care about your final HS grades. All they care about is that you have the equivalent of an American HS diploma. If you were in the UK and doing A-levels, you might get some credit for that. I don't think that applies to any other country, though.

Do you know whether or not I would have to send my HS transcripts in for evaluation even if I apply with the RA credit? I'm afraid that if I do bad for eg in math, and get a final mark of like 50% (which is a pass in South Africa), they might not consider me an "equivalent HS graduate", because according to USA standards that's a fail, even though our educational systems are very different.

In South Africa you have three types of "passes"; bachelors pass, diploma pass and higher certificate pass. Every pass is fairly self explanatory, depending on your grades you qualify to apply to specific programs, such as bachelors, diploma or higher cert. Meaning while a "higher certificate" pass is still a pass to complete HS, you won't be able to apply to any university (at least in SA) for a bachelors program only a higher certificate program, for that I'm assuming I should aim for "Bachelors Pass" just to be safe if I do have to get an evaluation done.

(For extra info: from grade 10/year 10/ sophomore year, you move on from mandatory subjects to electives. Every year before year 10, you take 9 mandatory subjects. From year 10 you have 4 mandatory subjects (English, Additional Language, Math (higher or lower level) and Life Orientation (Essentially a combination of like sex ed and general education on topics such as diversity, human rights, climate change etc)). And then you are required to take at a minimum 3 electives, so to pass Matric (senior year), you need to have 7 subjects.

Here are the requirements for a bachelors pass:
x1 Home Language needs to be at 50%
x2 Subjects can sit at 30% if all assignments and exams have been successfully completed throughout the year.
x4 Subjects must be at 50%.

And while I know that might seem so low; you have to remember that South Africa does not have a lenient educational system. It is not easy to get 80%<, a 4.0 GPA is unheard of in South Africa. We do not have things such as "extra credit" or "grades for attendance" or "homework grades" or "multiple choice exams" or any of the typically easier ways to boost your grades in school.

I'm scared that if I underperform an American evaluation institute might not deem me a HS graduate even if I do have a HS graduate diploma.