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The national exam (baccalauréat) ending high-school is easy to obtain (the success rate is about 90% [1]), and the grades obtained matter relatively little (most higher education school choose their students before the baccalauréat results, based on grades during high school). Thus, baccalauréat cram schools are rare.
[4] [10] Public disclosures made during the 2014/15 fiscal year by two leading cram schools indicated that Modern Education paid fees ranging from about HK$2 million to around HK$15 million to five tutors; Beacon College paid its top tutor HK$35 million in the same year, and another four tutors averaged approximately HK$4.8 million each. [1] By ...
Juku attendance rose from the 1970s through the mid-1980s; participation rates increased at every grade level throughout the compulsory education years. This phenomenon was a source of great concern to the Ministry of Education, which issued directives to the regular schools that it hoped would reduce the need for after-school lessons, but these directives had little practical effect.
The workload varies from school to school, but grade 11 students are generally expected to study grade 12 courses concurrently. Other courses include university-level courses. Some schools go as far as requiring their students to finish secondary school by the end of grade 10.
These cram schools are an extremely large (and profitable) business in Taiwan and have been criticized by some as being the result of cultural overemphasis on academic achievement. [43] Popular subjects in cram schools include English, mathematics, and physics. Cram schools are mostly popular amongst junior and senior high school students. [44]
The company priced its IPO above its previous target range of $28-$31, valuing the Palo Alto, California-based Rubrik at around $5.6 billion based on the outstanding shares listed in its filing ...
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A middle school is for students sixth grade, seventh grade and eighth grade and a junior high school is only for students in seventh and eighth grade. The second is the ISCED upper secondary phase, a high school or senior high school for students ninth grade through twelfth grade. [2] There is some debate over the optimum age of transfer, and ...