How do you call in English the highschool graduation exam? In Romanian, we say 'Bacalaureat.' Any specific name in English for it, or is it just highschool graduation exam?
Um... If I'm understanding you right -- an exam that you have to take and that determines whether you graduate? -- I didn't have to take one. I don't know anyone who has had to take an exam to graduate... We just have to pass the required number of classes. There are the SAT and ACT, which are standardized tests that many students take, but that is only for college applications. And, most states have some standardized tests which they used for statistics and to evaluate the quality of education provided by that school, but your score doesn't affect your grade or whether you pass or graduate. If any Americans had to take one, where are you from and when did you graduate? I went to high school in Missouri and graduated 10 years ago. Things might be different now or in different states.
There are different testing standards for different states. In Texas, almost every year from 3rd grade on, there are various tests in the core subjects (reading, writing, math, science, history) that are given in order to measure the knowledge students have and the things teachers are teaching. They used to call it the TAAS test, but now they call it the TAKS (Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills) test. The only reason why any of that explanation was relevant is because while your scores don't affect whether or not you advance onto the next grade until your 11th grade year. They call that the TAKS Exit Level test and if you do not pass it, you have 3 more chances during your 12th grade year to pass it. If you do not pass it within any of those chances, you do not graduate.
When I graduated last year, there was talk about requiring new students to pass tests before graduating. But I haven't heard anything about it recently, so I don't know what's happening at the moment.
Georgia has one.. but it's written on a 4th grade level. Ditto with math and history (as in they give you a timeline with the dates and then ask for the date of something on the timeline).And here it's just called the Georgia High School Graduation Exam.
God, I hated TAKS. I'm so glad North Carolina doesn't have them...but we do have EOCs (End of Course exams) where you have to get a certain percentage of proficiency to pass the class. You usually take them for classes that are required for graduation, so in a sense they are "graduation exams."
Actually, I really doubt any state in the United States requires you to take one exam to pass high school.
^^^California does. Individual states refer to their tests by diffent acronyms. However, a GED (General Education Diploma) is a test, usualy taken by adults. Passing the GED is the equivilant of graduating from High School and having a GED is equivilant to having a HS diploma. The name "GED" is the same for every state (I think). I hope this helps. I know the difference between different states' proceedures can be confusing.
Texas does, too. When you're in 11th grade, they give you a test in History, Math, Science, and English, and if you don't pass it, you get a few chances to try again your senior year and the summer before, but if you fail everytime, you don't graduate.
Well in Québec we have exams in secondary IV (Grade 10) in Physical Science and History of Québec and Canada and in secondary V (Grade 11) we have exams in french, english and math (depends on the level though) .. You must pass them all in order to go to cégep because they are all worth 50 % of your year...
The GED isn't quite the same as a highschool diploma. It sort of screams 'I was a fuck up back in the day'
