{"id":19269,"date":"2019-08-08T08:45:34","date_gmt":"2019-08-08T08:45:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.englishforums.com\/news\/?p=19269"},"modified":"2019-08-08T08:45:34","modified_gmt":"2019-08-08T08:45:34","slug":"education-ministers-passing-thresholds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/education-ministers-passing-thresholds\/","title":{"rendered":"Education ministers face accusations after lowering passing thresholds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>According to recent figures, success rates in Maths are still dropping, despite recent changes by the Department of Education, which made the passing threshold for the subject lower.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">With the reduction of passing scores, <\/span><b>students who want to graduate the Higher level of Maths now have to score only sixty-two percent (62%) to receive an excellent grade.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> The threshold for a C grade is forty-four percent (44%), while in order to get a D, students need to solve only about thirty percent (32%) of their exam.\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Compared to passing levels in 2017, <\/span><b>there is a decrease of more than ten percent (10%) when looking at the threshold for getting an A.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> In 2017, students needed to score above seventy-two percent (72%) in order to secure the excellent mark.\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Unfortunately, the changes introduced by education ministers did not have the desired effect on the number of students passing the Higher level of Maths. According to the latest statistic, <\/span><b>there is a two percent (2.1%) drop in successful graduates in this subject.<\/b><\/p>\n<h5><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Education ministers facing dissatisfaction<\/span><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In recent weeks, education ministers all over the United Kingdom have been receiving <\/span><b>numerous complaints from teachers and parents regarding funding and curriculum cuts. <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Discontent with the revision of passing grades for Math classes is just the latest in a series of complaints.\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Just this week, art experts from several big theatres expressed concerns that following budget and curriculum cuts, <\/span><b>students from public schools are <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.englishforums.com\/news\/arts-education-england-underfunded\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><b>underprepared<\/b><\/a><b> in arts subjects after graduation.\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The rise in complaints regarding the state of the educational system in the United Kingdom is worrying, and tensions regarding the outcome of <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/politics\/uk_leaves_the_eu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Brexit<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> negotiations with the European Union only add to the pressure on education ministers.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to recent figures, success rates in Maths are still dropping, despite recent changes by the Department of Education, which made the passing threshold for the subject lower.\u00a0 With the reduction of passing scores, students who want to graduate the Higher level of Maths now have to score only sixty-two percent (62%) to receive an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":19276,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,3],"tags":[473,902,1475],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19269"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19269\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}