<p>Just caught up reading this thread, and what Math Prof said earlier is what I understand to be the case for Language too. In a general sense the bell curve with the numbers (1-5) delineating the percentages approximately. The Lang test 2 years ago was MUCH harder than the one from 2007 (The representative numbers are different in Lang-2006 about 21% 4s and 5s, (51% pass rate), and in 2007 nearer to 28% (58% overall pass). 2008 looked more like 2007, (we shall see with grade distributions).</p>
<p>Speaking to college correlation-I remember college classes about the same as Math Prof and tokenadult too. 2-4 tests, 1 was a final, and the only real daily work was science labs in most cases. If you weren’t good on test day, you were toast, especially on the first one-hence a LOT of drops.</p>