-> SK>While you show large percentages of students in foreign nations
-> passing SK>these exams, I do recall from a previous article that you
-> had posted SK>that the percentage passing rate on these exams was
-> rather low SK>(something like 30%?). I was shocked at how low they
-> students were SK>allowed to score and still be considered passing.
-> Are we speaking to the same issue?  I think the percentage passing
-> rate referred to the number of kids passing, not the grades they
-> received.  I think I've deleted the message from my system and I'll
-> need to go back to the Web site and review it - maybe I was reading
-> it incorrectly.
Sorry, I'm not using correct terminology.
I meant "passing score", not "passing rate".
For instance, from an article you posted on France's Ed system we have:
-> To earn the brevet diploma, students must meet two basic
-> requirements:

-> Both course grades and exams are graded on a 20-point scale, with
-> students rarely scoring above 15. In the three exam subjects, exam
-> scores are doubleweighted, then averaged with course grades to
-> achieve a combined score. For the other subjects, course grades alone
-> serve as the final scores. To earn the diploma, the average of a
-> student's scores from all subjects must equal at least a 10.
-> Virtually all students who finish 9th grade on the academic track
-> take the brevet de college exam and 75 percent of test takers earn
-> the diploma-which translates to about 60 percent of the age cohort.
I'm not sure this is exactly what I was thinking of when I responded to
you, but 10 on a scale of 20 isn't real high. Of course, that is
possibly not related to a raw score on the exam?
I could've sworn there was some exam you posted about that students
needed a relatively low raw score to pass (below 50%). I will have to
spend more time looking for that article. Then again, I may have
imagined the whole thing. %*>
Sheila
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