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grades. After fourth grade, they’re given comprehensive achievement tests to determine “if they have the ability to complete higher education through the University,” Erich explained.
Then some, like Erich, continue on for nine years at the gymnasium where they finish a rigorous schedule of academic classes as a requisite for college entrance.
“Average" youngsters go from elementary school to middle school for six additional years of preparation for the business world. Others go on to special trade schools that continue through ninth grade and include three year apprenticeships in various occupations.
In German schools, there’s no such thing as “minimum competency testing” for graduation, a requirement instituted in Virginia beginning with the class of 1981. “That's serious,” Erich commented when shown sample questions from the competency tests. "Believe me, there's not a ninth grader who couldn't do this in such a little bit of time.”
He expressed surprise at the formats of both the competency tests and the entrance examinations from Wakefield Country Day School, a private school near Huntly.
According to Erich, German students are seldom tested with multiple choice, fill-in-the-blanks or true-andfalse questions. Instead,
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