{"id":14546,"date":"2019-08-06T13:16:09","date_gmt":"2019-08-06T12:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/?p=14546"},"modified":"2019-08-06T13:25:06","modified_gmt":"2019-08-06T12:25:06","slug":"scottish-exam-results-pass-rate-falls-for-highers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/scottish-exam-results-pass-rate-falls-for-highers\/","title":{"rendered":"Scottish exam results: pass rate falls for Highers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pass rates have dropped for Scottish Highers but has risen for the National 5 qualifications. More than 133,000 students are finding out their exam results in Scotland and 60,000 have chosen to find out by text and\/or email.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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A total of 185,914 pupils sat Higher exams this year and 138,972 (72.8% have achieved a A to C pass mark, this is down by 76.8% in 2018. Also the number of students sitting Advanced Highers has decreased from 24,331 to 23,460 and past rated have fell from 80.5% to 79.4% over the last year.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

For students that took the National 5 exams (more academically advanced qualifications), the pass rate increased from 77.4% last year to 78.2% in 2019.<\/span><\/p>\n

Deputy First Minister John Swinney said:\u00a0<\/strong>“I am pleased to see an overall rise in the pass rate for National 5 with increases in passes for maths and English. At Higher level we have seen a welcome upturn in the collective number of passes for the sciences – something we have focused our efforts on for some time.<\/span><\/p>\n

“Our learners now have a much wider range of choice than ever before, allowing them to find the route into employment or further education that is right for them.<\/span><\/p>\n

“This year for the first time we saw the removal of unit assessments at Higher level, a move that was broadly supported by the education sector. If the pass rate only ever went up people would rightly question the robustness of our assessment system.<\/span><\/p>\n

“We need to continue to ensure teachers have the right support in place to help them provide the best learning and teaching experiences for our young people.”<\/span><\/p>\n

Skills Development Scotland (SDS) is running a helpline to provide information for students, parents and carers. It will be open from 08:00 to 20:00 on Tuesday and Wednesday, then from 09:00 until 17:00 on weekdays until 14 August. It can be contacted on\u00a00808 100 8000.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Pass rates have dropped for Scottish Highers but has risen for the National 5 qualifications. More than 133,000 students are finding out their exam results in Scotland and 60,000 have chosen to find out by text and\/or email.\u00a0 A total of 185,914 pupils sat Higher exams this year and 138,972 (72.8% have achieved a A…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":14550,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[219,1534,1533,782],"class_list":["post-14546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uk-news","tag-education","tag-exam","tag-results","tag-scotland"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14546"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14546\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14552,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14546\/revisions\/14552"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}