Summary
It was meant to give students a fair chance even when tests were tough.
Key Points
3 points1
A pass mark of 33% means you need to answer about one out of three questions correctly.
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Teachers chose this number so that students could still succeed if the test was very difficult.
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Many schools still use the same rule because it is easy to understand.
New Words to Learn
3 wordspercentage
a way to show a part of something using the number 100
criterion
a rule that helps decide if something passes
benchmark
a standard that is used for comparison
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