The pass rate of Utah students was fifth in the nation and narrowly surpassed the state’s pre-pandemic rate.
Teacher Ashley Snarr, center, works with students in her English 9 class at Cyprus High School in Magna on Thursday Jan. 3, 2019. High school students who graduated in 2021 earned college credit at a higher rate for passing AP exams than students who tested in 2019, despite learning interruptions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.More Utah students took Advanced Placement exams in 2021 than in 2020, and the pass rate for students who graduated in 2021 was higher than pre-pandemic levels.
Utah tied Pennsylvania for the fifth-highest pass rate in the nation, behind only South Dakota , New Hampshire , New Jersey and Connecticut ., which administers the tests. That’s down 6% from 2019. But that total appears to be a significant drop from pre-pandemic years. The number of Utah students who took a test in 2018 was 26,912, and that was even higher in 2019, at 28,325.Despite the interruptions to learning caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, more students who took tests passed them.
When kids score a three, four or five on the exam, they can earn college credit for subjects like English, math and science. Utah’s pass rate peaked in 2018 at 68.6%, but the Utah Board of Education had noted the previous year that it expected to see a natural decline in pass rates as more students signed up for more tests.
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