The exam has provoked widespread consternation from parents and schools because of implementation problems that led to delays in administering the
test, as well as a writing portion of the
language arts section being deleted and a key interactive feature being
dropped because it didn't work correctly.
In the aggregate for the
tests given from 3rd through 8th grades, 65 percent passed in
language arts and 75 percent passed in math, both representing very slight
drops from 2011.