What is a mon kyu grade?

[Harkon72]

A mon grade is what is given as an intermediate between the kyu grades for the juniors, in other words, the "Stripe" grades.

[bushido_man96]

Thanks for clarifying this, everyone. I was waaaaay off.

[jcvamp]

Thanks for the responses.

[Kruczek]

Little late on this, but I wanted to pipe in and mention that my instructors (multiple ones) used the stripe method in between ranks to, as someone earlier mentioned, keep track of who was getting closer to testing. We would use two stripes of the next belts color (electrical tape) to signify progress through the material and a red one two-ish weeks before testing.

The fact that they considered 7th Kyu with two stripes higher ranking than 7th Kyu with one stripe would fall under the Mon Kyu system. They didn't charge for testing, this was again just to keep track of 50ish people's progress visually.