{"id":307962,"date":"2026-10-23T11:45:32","date_gmt":"2026-10-23T07:45:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=307962"},"modified":"2026-10-26T10:27:01","modified_gmt":"2026-10-26T06:27:01","slug":"a-passing-grade-without-sufficient-knowledge-the-new-grading-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/news\/307962\/","title":{"rendered":"A passing grade without sufficient knowledge? The new grading system"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>Under the new grading mechanism for 9th-grade science exams, a student can receive up to 8 out of 20 points simply for participating in group work.<\/p>\n<p>This assessment approach raises questions: how are the points calculated, what weight do a student&rsquo;s individual knowledge and project results carry, and how is fairness in grading ensured?<\/p>\n<p>Does the new system encourage the practical application of knowledge, or does it make it possible to get a passing grade without demonstrating an adequate level of subject knowledge?<\/p>\n<p><div class=\"video_container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"&#1330;&#1377;&#1406;&#1377;&#1408;&#1377;&#1408; &#1379;&#1398;&#1377;&#1392;&#1377;&#1407;&#1377;&#1391;&#1377;&#1398;&#1373; &#1377;&#1404;&#1377;&#1398;&#1409; &#1378;&#1377;&#1406;&#1377;&#1408;&#1377;&#1408; &#1379;&#1387;&#1407;&#1381;&#1388;&#1387;&#1412;&#1387;&#1374;&#8228; &#1379;&#1398;&#1377;&#1392;&#1377;&#1407;&#1396;&#1377;&#1398; &#1398;&#1400;&#1408; &#1392;&#1377;&#1396;&#1377;&#1391;&#1377;&#1408;&#1379;\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JFPyy0knXAQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Under the new grading mechanism for 9th-grade science exams, a student can receive up to 8 out of 20 points simply for participating in group work. This assessment approach raises questions: how are the points calculated, what weight do a student&rsquo;s individual knowledge and project results carry, and how is fairness in grading ensured? Does [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":307401,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,35,52,76],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-307962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","category-education","category-reports"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=307962"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307962\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":307964,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307962\/revisions\/307964"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/307401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}