a written assessment with a pass mark of 75 per cent
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But anyone who's reached adulthood and remained on the right side of a pass mark is a pleasure to behold: the bright eyes, the confidence, the goodwill and good-heartedness.
Another exam board, OCR, said setting a pass mark of 16 per cent for a grade C on its higher-tier paper showed how difficult the exam was.'
The figures, obtained by The Sunday Times under the new Freedom of Information Act, reveal that the average pass mark in all subjects since 1984 was 47%.
It was a sort of a pass mark but I'd be looking to improve on that.
Every year, the exams quango sets a minimum pass mark for every subject, the stated purpose of which is to ensure that the grade a candidate achieves in a course is comparable to previous and future years.
In 2003, the cut-off for a level 2 pass was 21 out of 50 marks or 42% compared with 2002 when the pass mark was set at 28 out of 50 or 56%.
Reducing the pass mark to ensure fewer failures has long been used for A-levels and the FSA is now doing it for life assurance companies.
She has never scored a pass mark since the survey began.
I'll order immediate action to make sure that never again will the pass mark for an A grade in GCSE Maths be just 45%.
Chinese students expect to be tested more often than their Western counterparts, and the pass mark, I soon discovered, is not 50 per cent but 60 per cent.
At Darton High School in Barnsley they got identical exam results in their GCSEs and A-levels and then both went on to study science and technology at Sheffield University before getting the same pass mark.
According to the national newspapers the pass mark for English eight years ago was 57 marks out of 100.
He passed School Certificate with 232 marks - 200 was the pass mark - but failed University Entrance twice, languishing for two years in the lower sixth form.
There are only two explanations for getting the pass mark.
The points system is stringent, and the pass mark was raised this July.
Things may have changed in the three decades or so since the fearsome Miss Donaldson despaired of my mathematical ineptitude, but more than 50% scored in any examination meant a pass mark when I was at school.
When this happens, examiners lower the pass mark to suit the average, as they can't always gauge the level of difficulty of any exam paper they set.
The pass mark for these are 40%, of which coursework takes up to 60% of the total mark.
Imagine a learner scored a minimum pass mark or more but he or she will leave school life for street life.
However, as it turned out, this was a stroke of luck as anyone obtaining above 60% was forced to carry on with Latin into the third year, those obtaining between the pass mark and 59% did German, and those failing did Spanish.