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Alabama High School Graduation Exam: AHSGE [1] Alaska: Alaska Department of Education and Early Development: High School Graduation Qualifying Examination: HSGQE SBA [2] Arizona: Arizona Department of Education: Arizona's Instrument to Measure Standards: AIMS Arkansas: Arkansas Department of Education: Augmented Benchmark Examination [3] California
In states that require students to pass a high school graduation test, the students are typically given multiple opportunities to take the test each year, over several years. For example, in the State of California, students could take the California High School Exit Exam up to eight times over three years until the exam was abolished in 2018. [4]
The following standardized tests are designed and/or administered by state education agencies and/or local school districts in order to measure academic achievement across multiple grade levels in elementary, middle and senior high school, as well as for high school graduation examinations to measure proficiency for high school graduation.
Candidates for the High School Graduation Examination include: Students in grade 12 are eligible to take the exam (weak academic performance or higher, behaviour average or higher). Those who have completed the high school program but have not taken the graduation exam or have taken the exam but have not graduated in previous years.
Prior to the CAHSEE, the high school exit exams in California were known as the High School Competency Exams and were developed by each district pursuant to California law. In 1999, California policy-makers voted to create the CAHSEE in order to have a state exam that was linked to the state’s new academic content standards. [4]
On March 26, 2008, Gregoire effectively tossed out the math section of the 10th-grade WASL, largely due to low pass rates and debate over its long list of problems, to be replaced by math tests at the end of classes. The math WASL will count as a graduation requirement in 2011 and then be replaced in 2014 by end-of-course exams.
This is a list of primary and secondary school tests. Tests available at the end of secondary school, like Regents Examinations in New York, California High School Exit Exam, GED across North America, GCE A-Level in the UK, might lead to a school-leaving certificate. However, other tests like SAT and ACT do not play such roles.
The Alabama High School Graduation Exam (AHSGE) was a test to assess mastery of content standards, introduced during the No Child Left Behind education reform effort and discontinued in 2013. [1] [2] It was administered in grades 10-12. [3] Students were not allowed to receive a diploma until they had passed all sections of the exam.