Sentence examples for higher pass rate from inspiring English sources

Economics also saw a higher pass rate for boys, though only around 3,000 candidates of either sex entered.

Re "The Pitfalls of Make-or-Break Tests" (Education page, March 7): The passing score on the recently introduced placement test in reading at the City University of New York was not reduced in order to produce a higher pass rate.

However, she expressed her concern over the pass-rate of Higher English and said: "Yet, in English, at a time when there are concerns about literacy skills amongst school leavers, we learn that the English Higher pass rate has increased hugely".

Pupils in both inner and suburban London obtain a higher pass rate in the five core subjects (which must include English and maths) in the GCSE exams sat by pupils at 16 than the national average (see chart).The stubborn performance gap between richer and poorer pupils has also narrowed in the city in the past decade.

This difference was likely to have contributed to the 2009 test's significantly higher pass rate.

Professionals who are relatively younger or attending physicians have higher pass rate of ISCD course in Taiwan.

Population growth combined with higher pass rates over the past few years has added to the pressure: demand for higher education has far outstripped supply for the past three years.

Modular courses do have slightly higher pass rates, but this year is only the second in which a significant number of pupils have taken them.

On the one hand the Education Secretary demands ever higher pass rates, yet when this is achieved, claims that it can only have occurred due to examinations becoming too easy.

The National Union of Teachers warned of an "inherent contradiction" in the government's criticism of GCSEs - saying that it was "nonsensical" to expect higher pass rates from schools while at the same time saying that any such improvement was evidence of exams becoming easier.

In contrast, bats adapted to foraging in low-clutter space (i.e., medium- and high-management coffee) demonstrated higher species richness and significantly higher pass rates in more intensively managed coffee plantations; however, open-space bats showed no differences in ensemble structure and feeding rates across the intensification gradient.