Part 8 (1/2)

DISTRIBUTION OF THE NON-GRADUATES ACCORDING TO THE NUMBERS PERSISTING TO EACH SUCCESSIVE SEMESTER

BY END OF SEMESTERS 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

Total (4205) 2787 1957 1572 999 761 390 234 60 23 4 Per Cent of Non-failing (418) 245 200 164 139 127 72 38 16 0

Only 20 per cent of the non-graduates who remain to the end of the first year (second seraduates outnu ones when all the pupils who finally drop out are considered, their percentage of the majority increases rapidly for each successive seraduates are in general not the ones who persist long in school is shown by these percentages

2 THE NUMBER OF FAILURES AND THE YEARS TO GRADUATE

The following table sho the nuraduation The distribution in Table VIII shows a range froraduation ranging from 3 to 6 years It is evident froraduating is not commensurate with the nuest nuraduate in four years in spite of their nuraduates require four years or less for graduation The nureater than the number who require either five and one-half or six years The median number of failures per pupil is 4 The pupils with fewer than 4 failures who take raduate are not representative of any particular school in this co 10 or raduate

TABLE VIII

DISTRIBUTION OF PUPILS GRADUATING, ACCORDING TO THE TOTAL FAILURES EACH AND THE TIME TAKEN TO GRADUATE

NO OF YEARS TO GRADUATE FAILURES 3 3 4 4 5 5 6 TOTALS

0 Boys 20 23 244 12 8307 Girls 54 26 380 30 14504

1 Boys 2 10 59 7 280 Girls 5 8 83 13 5114

2 Boys 2 2 64 7 7 082 Girls 2 3 88 11 8 1113

3 Boys 0 6 27 5 442 Girls 1 1 53 6 364

4 Boys 1 1 44 0 8 155 Girls 4 6 57 8 4 180

5 Boys 0 1 41 2 347 Girls 1 2 26 7 541

6 Boys0 29 6 30 38 Girls1 29 3 81 42

7 Boys2 12 7 728 Girls1 13 4 523

8 Boys0 17 7 81 33 Girls1 16 9 70 33

9 Boys0 6 5 5 0 0 16 Girls1 7 8 8 1 1 26

10 Boys1 6 4 6 017 Girls1 14 5 2 123

11-15 Boys0 9 18 11 0 1 39 Girls1 11 25 14 1 4 56

16-20 Boys2 2 4 1 1 10 Girls2 5 2 2 0 11