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01-12-2017, 12:21 PM
Chinese high school devises 'marks bank' for failing students to borrow from to raise grades
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Failing your exams? An international high school in China has introduced a scheme allowing students to "borrow" marks to top up grades.
The "marks bank" — devised by parents in the banking industry — is being implemented as a trial in the Nanjing Number One Secondary School in eastern China, reports the South China Morning Post (http://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/2061468/struggling-chinese-school-pupils-given-higher-grades-mark-bank).
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Students can borrow marks from the bank to make up for a failing grade, but have to repay their loans from marks obtained from subsequent exams, or from extra activities such as making public presentations or conducting lab experiments. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/01/12/marks-bank-china-school/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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Failing your exams? An international high school in China has introduced a scheme allowing students to "borrow" marks to top up grades.
The "marks bank" — devised by parents in the banking industry — is being implemented as a trial in the Nanjing Number One Secondary School in eastern China, reports the South China Morning Post (http://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/2061468/struggling-chinese-school-pupils-given-higher-grades-mark-bank).
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Students can borrow marks from the bank to make up for a failing grade, but have to repay their loans from marks obtained from subsequent exams, or from extra activities such as making public presentations or conducting lab experiments. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/01/12/marks-bank-china-school/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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