Pretty much what HowlerKarma said. If you had a good teacher/student ratio and a flexible system then it could be good but what it seems to end up at is a everybody reaches the minimum standard . Here it appears to result in kids doing the minimum work to achieve especially boys. Also since our system works on 30 kids a class the ones who are already at standard get to wait not advance. From time to time there is talk of letting kids who ard ready sit the exam when ready but that would probably require computerised testing and NZ has always had long answer type exams not multi choice. Then the kid would be a subject short until the beginning of the following year anyway.
Last edited by puffin; 02/19/16 12:08 PM.
