Fewer provincial exams, more in-class assessment in B.C. starting next year
VICTORIA — High school students in British Columbia will be required to write two provincial exams instead of five before they graduate as part of a new curriculum, which teachers are giving only a passing grade.
Education Minister Mike Bernier said math and literacy will be the only skills to be formally tested starting in the next school year.
Teachers will assess Grade 10 science and language arts and Grade 11 social studies in the classroom instead of through provincial exams.