Sentences with phrase «exam entries graded»

Mary Bousted, head of the ATL teachers» union, said it was worrying that the overall pass rate for GCSEs had fallen for the first time and that the proportion of exam entries graded between an A * and a C had dropped too.

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The school's sixth form recorded an overall A level pass rate of 99 %, with a brilliant 82 % of entries graded A * to C and 55 % of all exams receiving top grades of A * to B, well above the national average.

More than a dozen federal class action lawsuits have been filed seeking damages from the Educational Testing Services (ETS) for errors in grading the PRAXIS Principles of Learning and Teaching Grade 7 - 12 exam required for entry - level classroom certification in many states.

More exam entries overall were given the A and A * grades, and just under 70 % were awarded between an A * and a C.

Performance for the grades A * to C has now been the same for the last three years with 66.6 % of exam entries falling into this top band.

Our research shows that when students achieve a 92 percent attendance rate, earn 11 or more credits and pass at least one Regents exam in ninth grade, they are far more likely to graduate on time and be ready for entry into a college or career path.

Only the first entry is now counted, so if a pupil re-takes an exam the following year and gets a better grade this will not show in school league table results.

Or of families that put their third graders through hours and hours and months and months of test prep so they would do well enough on the program entry exam to be accepted into the fourth grade class.

This report examines how well high school grade point average and standardized exam scores predict college grades by the urbanicity of students» hometown and timing of college entry.

Entry to the school's sixth form was already highly rigorous, with pupils requiring A and A * grades in their GCSE exams for admission.

Exam board Cambridge Assessment revealed in March that one in six pupils got three A grades, while 26.7 % of A-level entries were awarded the top grade.

There has been a drop in the proportion of GCSE exam entries awarded top grades, for the second year in a row.

The Ofqual exam watchdog in England has already warned that GCSE English, maths and all science results are likely to «look different» with grades possibly dropping this year because of changes to the exams and the patterns of entry.