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by jtolmar
35 days ago
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Gosh that Polish language scores graph is good. Clean bell curve, slight skew, classic little bump at 100 because the measure is truncated, and then this giant mess at 30 that looks more like something out of a heart rate monitor than a normal distribution. |
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Right, it's as if someone shot the heart with a defibrillator - because that's a good analogy of what is actually happening, given the "arbitrary negative effects for people" failing the exam are basically determining the course of one's future (or at least feel like this to the people and their parents at the time).
In particular, having passed "matura" is the lowest level kind of threshold used (both formally and informally) by employers considering job applicants; much like some higher-skill jobs still require a specific university degree, not having "matura" will cut you out of a large chunk of low-skill and entry-level jobs.
Couple failed "matura" with any kind of criminal record - and the two, I imagine, are probably correlated - and you can be screwed for life, economically speaking. It is a big deal, and teachers know it.
IDK what the current system is, but for my cohort, it was possible to repeat the exam in subsequent years - but like with any kind of degree, chances of someone doing that drop sharply with temporal distance; at some point, people just find a path for their lives and are more interested in present-day challenges than going back to finish some degree.