Only 19% of students pass second session of end-of-highschool exam in Romania
The highest rate so far was in Suceava county, with 36.3 percent, which had a high rate at the first session too – 66.2 percent. Commentators said the high rate in this county could have been caused by the lack of cameras in the exam rooms, which would have allowed students to cheat.
The Bacalaureat exam this year ended with the worst results in the last 20 years in Romania. Romanian students who finish high school must take the Bacalaureat exam (BAC) in order to graduate and to be able to go to college.
In 2010, 67.4 percent of the students who took the exam managed to pass and in 2009 the rate was almost 80 percent.
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