Sentence examples for decline in the passing from inspiring English sources

Results of the analysis show that a lack of consistency in the scoring of the exit test, the use of inappropriate reading passages, and careless prompt design contributed to the decline in the passing rate.

The drop continues a decline in the pass rate that began several years ago, said Nancy Oppe Carpenter, the executive secretary of the board.

The rise comes despite a shrinking number of 18-year-olds in the UK population as a whole and a slight decline in the pass rate – the first for 32 years.

One school in the Manzini region reported a 30% decline in the pass rate this year.

Last week, I wrote that the monster passing numbers from the first five weeks took a serious body blow in Week 6, evidenced by a huge decline in passing touchdowns.

New York has been a national model for how to carry out education reform, so its sudden decline in passing rates may be seen as a cautionary tale.

Results released last month showed that fewer than half the state's middle school students passed the math and English/Language Arts tests, with a slight decline in the percentage of students passing the English test.

An increasing distance between animal and stimulus monitor resulted in a decrease of visual space occupied by the monitor and therefore a decline in the number of isolines passing over it.

"It's clear there is a decline in the number of students who passed, but it is hard to know to what extent or what it means," Ms. DeFabio said.

DealBook truly believes that this decline in passing represents the single most serious threat to Linsanity's long-run survival.

In the Harlem Village Academy Charter School the passing rate for students on the math proficiency test dropped from 100% in 2012 to 21.3% in 2013, an astronomical decline of 78.7%.