DepEd Reports 99% Passing Grades Among Students, Senators Doubtful

DepEd Reports 99% Passing Grades Among Students Nationwide

DEPED REPORTS 99% PASSING GRADES – The Department of Education reported 99% of students across the Philippines passed the first quarter.

Students and teachers alike shifted to the new distance learning platforms. Most say there were issues with the system but according to DepEd, distance learning was a major success.

According to an article from Inquirer, DepEd presented a report to the Senate on Wednesday showing the performance of Grade 1 to Grade 12 students. Furthermore, they noted how more than 14.5 million students got passing grades. Additionally, merely 126,000 students got failing grades.

DepEd Reports 99% Passing Grades Among Students, Senators Doubtful

Western Visayas led the top of the charts with a 99.4% passing rate. Meanwhile, Cordillera had the lowest with 96.92%. However, lawmakers expressed immense doubt after DepEd showed the “surprising” report.

As per the article, Senator Sherwin Gatchalian drilled DepEd Undersecretary Diosdado San Antonio where he got his data.

I don’t even know how to interpret [these findings] that 99 percent passed, and almost no one failed even with the challenges of distance learning. Does this mean [the students] are absorbing and learning their lessons

Following this, Antionio answered in the affirmative saying:

“yes, if we base the interpretation on the grades, the learners seem to be learning”.

Unfortunately, Gatchalian caught Antonio’s use of the word “seem” and noted how the Undersecretary didn’t “seem convinced” himself.

Instead, the Senator cited a more realistic result from DepEd in Valenzuela City, his hometown. There, the data showed that students had an average passing rate of 48 to 55 percent.

I am having headaches trying to reconcile the 99 percent you have and the 55 percent for Valenzuela“, the Senator said.

Antonio explained that the high percentage of passing marks may be due to adjustments to the grading system. He said that there would be times where instead of getting failing marks, students would just be tagged as “incomplete” to give them time to finish requirements.

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