The BBC in Scotland now happy to report data that is not only misleading but false , don’t they have a new fact checking department ? #ScottishIndependence
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Ah, but this is BBC “unit in Scotland“ deniable wordsmithing. It is both factually correct but clearly and maliciously misleading. By missing “from those that took mathematics” they include all the students, even those that did not take it.
In all fairness I'm not sure that's undisputable. If 1 out of every hundred school pupils opted to study maths and that 1 percent passed. Would we really be congratulating ourselves as a nation as achieving 100% numeracy pass rates?
They don't mention that N5 is SG credit equivalent so there's zero context for masses of readers who don't really know what N5 is. The minority passed SG credit maths, so why should that be different now?! If the pass rate was higher they'd be moaning it was too easy. Poor reporting, as usual.
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Propaganda 101
That's not fair.
It's an overdramatization.
Something the BBC dabbles in every day.
As far as numeracy disasters go...
England's math pass rate was 59.6%, AFAIK.
What is your point?
Why no congratulations?
SG was differentiated at F G and C levels
N5 is like C+ level