No Graduation in the UK?

[Steve]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Catlady (Rita Prince Winston)" <catlady at ...> wrote:
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> Steve bboyminn wrote in <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPFGU-OTChatter/message/39566>:
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> << 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. >>
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> Because elementary school students... 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. ...
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> << 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. >>
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> 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.
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bboyminn:

I think, now days, if you are doing poorly in one subject, you might be able to make it up in summer school. Usually, though it varies, a year failure is usually based on your average marks for the year. This would include daily marks on homework assignments as well as midterm and final exams. 

As to the other issue of Hermione saying you need to do well in the final exams to advance to the next year, we don't know for sure if that is Hermione's paranoia, or if it is a fact. Grab and Goyle seem to advance every year except when it comes to OWL test. They fail those tests to an extent that the must make up classes before they can move to NEWTS. If the couldn't scrape a pass in their OWLs, I can't believe they were doing the well in their end of year exams, yet they still advanced.

Of course, I can't really know for sure.

Steve/bboyminn