No Graduation in the UK?

[Catlady (Rita Prince Winston)]

Steve bboyminn wrote in <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPFGU-OTChatter/message/39566>:

<< If you don't meet standards, you are held back a grade to repeat a year, and hopefully the second time on the same material, you get it right. >>

Because elementary school students have to take all their subjects in the same group of people in the same room all day long, if a student did really well in Math and English and Spanish and Science but failed American History, they have to repeat the same Math and English and Spanish and Science in which they already did well. That doesn't make sense to me. Better they should advance a grade in those subjects and only repeat American History, even though it means they have to go to a different room for that subject.

<< In the USA, you supposedly have to make the grade every single
year in order to continue on, or advance. But in the UK and
at Hogwarts, while on-going and yearly marks are given, they
don't seem to carry any weight. >>

Alas, there is some canon that they do. In PS/SS, when Hermione nagged the boys to study for the end of year exams, she said they need to pass those exams to get into second year. I can't remember in which book the Trio hoped that Goyle would be held back a year.