Figures for other subjects remained the same as last year, with 79 per
cent reaching Level 4 in maths and 88 per cent in science.
Overall, 80 per
cent reach level 4 by the end of primary school.
In 1999, 20 % of fourth graders scored at advanced and proficient levels in English; in 2000 only 9 per
cent reached this level.
In 1999, 53 % of the students scored at advanced or proficient levels in math; in 2000, only 22 per
cent reached those levels.
Not exact matches
Woodside Petroleum Ltd subsidiary ATS Inc has made good on a promise not to extend its $ 1.16 billion hostile takeover bid for US - based oil producer Energy Partners Ltd, after failing to
reach the minimum acquisition
level of 50 per
cent.
The stock found support near 70
cents in the second half of the year, testing that
level three times ahead of a March 2017 uptick that has now
reached ranged resistance.
They have now
reached levels equivalent to 20 or 30 per
cent of GDP.
An important study by Rogoff and Rheinhart in 2013 came to the conclusion that when debt
levels reached 90 per
cent of GDP growth indeed would suffer.
Compare this with the
levels reached in the mid 1990s of almost 70 per
cent.
There has also been some softening in the share market, particularly for technology stocks; the S&P 500 index is currently around 5 per
cent below the peak
levels reached in March, and the NASDAQ is currently 21 per
cent lower.
B.C.'s debt - to - income ratio is 160 per
cent — the same
level reached in the United States just before the financial crisis and housing meltdown hit.
Engineering construction has risen by 50 per
cent over the past year, to
reach very high
levels, and is set to expand further in the near term, driven by a considerable stock of resource and infrastructure work in the pipeline.
Bond yields in Japan fell to 1.125 per
cent, equal to the lowest recorded by historians in the past 4,000 years, and well below the
level of 1.75 per
cent reached by US bonds in the Great Depression (Graph 2).
The Bank's Commodity Price Index (in SDRs) rose by 5 per
cent during the March quarter, to a
level 21 per
cent higher than the trough
reached in September 1993 (Graph 26); it then eased back a little in April.
The storm confronting Keely and his family feels like it has
reached gale - force
levels: as farmers struggle with the fall - out of an unprecedented, late - in - the - season 15 per
cent drop in the milk price and demand politicians deliver an industry fighting fund, the largest processor and price - setter Murray Goulburn was hit with a class action and an Australian Securities and Investments Commission investigation.
During the nadir recent crisis (2001 — 2003), prices
reached record low
levels (Kona at 49 US
cents / lb according to the ICO indicator price, April 2001) and left many Kona producers in very difficult conditions.
Eurostar's 2009 passenger numbers only
reached 37 per
cent of the
level forecast for the new HS1 link.
A country like Ethiopia as at now has
reached a
level where 60 per
cent of her income is being spent on capital expenditure and 40 per
cent on recurrent expenditure.
This matters because commercial whaling may be allowed to resume once populations
reach 54 per
cent of their «historic»
levels.
Although atmospheric oxygen soon recovered again as photosynthesis and weathering
reached a new balance, at about 10 per
cent of present - day
levels, the oxidative weathering of sulphides on land filled the oceans with sulphate which created abundant food for a group of bacteria that filled the oceans with sewer gas (hydrogen sulphide) toxic to oxygen - loving lifeforms (delaying the development of eukaryotic plants and animals) and turned them «into stinking, stagnant waters almost entirely devoid of oxygen.»
Also because vegetable juice is deprived of fibre, the percentage of nutrients able to
reach the cellular
level raises from 30 to even 90 per
cent!
The BESA Leadership Briefing report showed that 38 per
cent of primary school pupils and 20 per
cent of secondary -
level students will continue to suffer from poor internet access in 2016, meaning that a great deal of superb and helpful resources for computing, such as Espresso Coding, 2Simple's 2Code and J2e's J2Code will remain out of
reach no matter what they cost.
The highest ever percentage of pupils
reached the expected
level in maths, at 87 per
cent - up one percentage point on last year.
Research conducted by Fit For Sport suggests that 67 per
cent of children at primary school are not
reaching basic
levels of fitness for their age group.
The figures show only 54 per
cent of children from disadvantaged families
reach a good
level of development, compared with 72 per
cent of the age group overall.
However it highlighted that there was still a large 18 per
cent gap between the proportion of disadvantaged children
reaching these
levels compared with their peers.
Female students outperformed their male counterparts nationally at both year
levels — 60 per
cent of female Year 6 students
reached the proficient standard, compared to 50 per
cent of male Year 6 students; in Year 10 the percentages were 42 per
cent for female students and 35 per
cent for male students.
In state schools, entries in creative subjects hit a high of 53.7 per
cent in 2013, but have declined sharply since then,
reaching their lowest
level of the decade in 2016.
A total of 768 schools did not
reach the government's floor standard for attainment — now set at 65 per
cent of pupils achieving
level 4 in reading and writing tests and teacher assessment of writing.
The floor target is set to increase further in future, with 85 per
cent of pupils required to
reach the equivalent of the higher
level of 4b in reading, writing and maths from 2016.
Primary league tables show that 79 per
cent of pupils
reached the expected
level in all of reading, writing and mathematics this year, against 75 per
cent in 2013.
Nationally, 61 per
cent of pupils have
reached the expected
levels, an improvement of last year's score of 53 per
cent.
For example, if per pupil funding is frozen in cash terms, as it is now, and the minimum funding guarantee of -1.5 per
cent remains in place, almost all schools will
reach their formula
level of funding by 2029 - 30.
The budget office said the ratio's highest
level over the past 25 years was 14.9 per
cent — a mark
reached in late 2007.
National activity is forecast to
reach 490,600 units in 2010, up 5.5 per
cent from 2009 and the second highest annual
level on record.
EU energy from coal has fallen during most years between 1990 and 2013,
reaching almost 40 per
cent below 1990
levels (the far left bars in the chart below).
To
reach Singapore's Nationally Determined Contribution under the Paris Agreement — to reduce emissions intensity by 36 per
cent from 2005
levels by 2030, and peak carbon emissions by 2030 — the public has to engage in dialogue with the government and help shape a carbon tax that reflects Singapore's ambition.
Scientists are 95 per
cent certain that humans have caused recent temperature rises The seas are set to
reach higher - than - expected
levels by the end of the century But experts fear the report will fail to spur serious government action Development experts and scientists have reacted cautiously to leaked versions of the first part of the [continue reading...]
Production is estimated to increase between 22 (low) and 54 per
cent (high) above 2007
levels before
reaching its peak.
There are battery options available to assist with consumption, including Battery & Power Saving's Game Optimizer (to adjust video quality in games) and Battery Saver which limits background services when
reaching 15 per
cent battery
level remaining.
Typically we found ourselves docking the Gear Sport in its cradle once every other day when the battery
reached the
levels at or below 20 per
cent.
This has a devastating impact on attainment
levels, and research shows that only 49 per
cent of adopted children
reached their expected
levels at Key Stage 2, whilst 75 per
cent of their peers achieved expected
levels.
New housing starts increased by 6.9 per
cent in 2004 to
reach more than 233,400 units, their highest
level since 1987.