PERCENTAGE OF THE TOTAL FAILURES
ON THE TOTAL SUBJECT ENROLLMENT, BY SEMESTERS
| Semester | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Per Cent | 11.5 | 13.9 | 14.5 | 15.1 | 14.5 | 15.3 | 12.1 | 9.9 | 10.9 | 6.2 |
The 808 pupils who received no marks, and many of whom dropped out early in the first semester, are not included in the subject enrollment for the above percentages. Otherwise the enrollments taken are for the beginning of each semester and inclusive of all the pupils. These percentages rise from 11.5 in the first semester to 15.3 in the sixth semester. Then the percentages drop off, doubtless due to the increasing effect by this time of the non-failing graduates on the total enrollment. The graduates alone are next considered in this respect.
PERCENTAGES OF THE TOTAL FAILURES FOR THE GRADUATES
ON THE TOTAL SUBJECT ENROLLMENT FOR GRADUATES, BY SEMESTERS
| Semester | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Per Cent | 5.9 | 6.6 | 7.8 | 9.1 | 9.2 | 10.5 | 9.1 | 7.3 | 8.8 | 5.2 |
These percentages are based on the total possibility of failure, and reach their highest point in the sixth semester, where the percentage of failure is nearly twice that for the first semester. These same facts may be effectively presented also by the percentages of such failures for the graduates on the total subject enrollment for only the failing graduates in each semester.
PERCENTAGES OF THE TOTAL FAILURES FOR THE GRADUATES
ON THE TOTAL SUBJECT ENROLLMENT FOR FAILING GRADUATES, BY SEMESTERS
| Semester | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Per Cent | 31.4 | 31.2 | 31.8 | 32.7 | 32.3 | 36.6 | 37.5 | 37.4 | 38.0 | 36.0 |
The percentages here are limited to the total possibilities of failure for those graduates who do fail in each semester. They reach the highest point in the ninth semester, with a gradual increase from the first. The high point is reached later in this series than in the one immediately preceding, because while the percentage of pupils failing decreases in the final semesters ([p. 14]), there is an increase in the number of failures per failing pupil ([Table IV]).
This increase of percentages by semesters for the graduates on the total possibility of failure, as just noted, is due to an actual increase in the number of failures for the later semesters. By the distribution of failures in [Table II] more than 56 per cent of the failures are found after the completion of the second year, in spite of the fact that about 10 per cent of the pupils who graduate do so in three or three and a half years. The failures of the graduates are simply the more numerous after the first two years in school. That this situation is no accident due to the superior weight of any single school in the composite group, is readily disclosed by turning to the units which form the composite. For these schools the percentages of the graduates' failures that are found after the second year range from 40 per cent to 66 per cent. In only three of the schools are such percentages under 50 per cent, while in three others they are above 60 per cent.