Who knows, but a measure of sucessful achievement, no. Thats like turning up to the olympics and just saying you are just happy to be there, and werent ever there to win a medal - POINTLESS
D and E will show that you at least attempted it without being a complete failure. You then go and sit a...
but you are still deemed a sucess if you get all D's and E's
Thats my point If you need A-C's to get into college, then why not make that the pass mark, not A-E's
Maybe then the standard of education will go up in a bid to come higher on a league table, instead of one where the lowest score is...
I dont like the way the figures are produced for Pass rates, it gives a false sense of sucess, and what is judged to be sucess really isnt.
I guess we are like that in sporting terms.
You here things like 98% pass rate, and you think that the school has done really well. But pass means grades...