The phrase 'pass college' is not grammatically correct.
In this context, you would use the word 'graduate' instead. For example: "She was so proud when she graduated college."
The state will soon require every graduate to pass college preparatory Regents exams in English, math, social studies and science.
But of the 38 students — 39 percent of its graduating class — who went to CUNY last year, 75 percent could not pass the reading, math or writing exams CUNY uses to determine if freshmen can pass college classes.
She doesn't believe in doing anything halfway, telling her 12-year-old daughter, "If you have a test, why not try for an A?" A computer science degree opened doors for her when there were few opportunities for women, and if she could wave a magic wand, every girl would pass college freshman calculus.
Other CCRC studies have shown that having students take remedial and college-level courses at the same time can be effective; that a quarter of remedial students would pass college courses with a B or higher; and that high school grade-point averages would be a better basis for remedial assignment than widely used standardized tests.
In the study, students with GPAs lower than 2.5 showed extremely little concern about their ability to pass college classes once admitted, their ability to "fit in" with other students, and how they would stack up intellectually with their peers.
Less than half of students placed one level below ever pass college level English.
Students who take Chabot's more intensive one-semester English remediation course pass college-level English at twice the rate of those who took the college's two-semester course".
So the state's defense was this: The Regents can require students to pass college-preparatory exams, but the Constitution requires the Legislature only to provide money to support an eighth-grade literacy level.
If the bill were to pass, colleges would be required to provide homeless and foster youth with in-state tuition and come up with a plan to provide them with housing during and in-between semesters.
California State University's controversial reforms eliminating non-credit remedial courses have helped thousands more students pass college-level math classes and move closer to a degree, new data show.
As more and more students are denied high-school diplomas because they could not pass college-readiness tests, the parents' revolt will take off in families of all socioeconomic classes in all parts of the nation.
