Though the pass rate has always fluctuated, the latest result has brought renewed heart-searching.
The minister had faced media questioning over the apparent 7% increase in the pass rate.
He said there was no case for making A-levels harder because the pass rate was so high.
Mr McConnell welcomed the real pass rate for pupils sitting their Higher exams describing it as very good.
The BagoSphere training course maintains a pass rate in Business Process Outsourcing recruitment tests about 8x higher than competitors.
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The pass rate in Wales did go up - to 95.8%, still more than in England, where it was 94.1%.
"We already have a 90% A-level pass rate, and have had every year for the past three years, " she said.
That program involves a series of three annual exams, given simultaneously around the globe and each having about a 60% pass rate.
The latest matric results published this month showed a fall in the overall pass rate to 61%, compared with 73% in 2003.
While the talk prompted by the overall figures is that a 100% pass rate might be achievable within a few years, the WJEC has almost reached that point already.
Mr McConnell had defended what appeared at that stage to be a sharply increased pass rate, saying the new exam system was better adapted to the needs of more youngsters.
Ironically the Federal government is causing providers to over-charge private insurers, who then pass on rate increases to their customers, which result in lashings from the same Federal government.
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"Hispanic High School Graduates Pass Whites in Rate of College Enrollment, " reads the headline of a press release from the Pew Hispanic Center.
The case was a challenge to a firefighter test that had a wide range of difference between the pass and failure rate of different groups.
Meanwhile, Government-owned Northern Rock cut its Standard Variable Rate by 0.1% on Monday, its first move after the Bank of England cut base rates by 0.25% 11 days ago, and more than a week after the chancellor said banks should pass on interest rate cuts to homeowners.
Utilities would cover these costs and presumably pass them on to rate-payers.
Last week, in their pre-policy meeting with RBI governor D Subbarao, bankers had argued for a pause arguing that they are yet to pass on the previous rate hikes to customers, the Times of India reported on Monday.
The RBI expects commercial banks to pass on the benefits of the rate cuts to their customers over the next three-four months, Governor Duvvuri Subbarao said at a press conference.
The programme is produced by local school teachers of the four ICT centres and focussed on areas that will help increase the pass percentage from the present dismal rate of 26.43% in Palpa District.
The issue is that a great number of small businesses are taxed as pass- through entities, so the rate of the corporate tax would not necessarily apply to those taxed at the individual rate.
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If the law were to pass (insert choking noises here), the tax rate would be reduced from the statutory rate of 35% to a special rate of 5.25%.
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Budget proposals that exceed the capped rate need a 60 percent supermajority of votes to pass.
That the suicide rate among those who work at the Foxconn factories was lower than the suicide rate in the general Chinese population did seem to pass many by at the time.
In the spring he paid between 70 cents and 80 cents per dollar of face value for a senior tranche of the WaMu Mortgage Pass-Through 2005-AR2, which carries a coupon rate of Libor plus 31 basis points, or 3.52% in September.
But some HMOs are now grousing a bit and planning to pass Cobra costs on to members next year in the form of rate increases.
Supporters say the law, which took 14 years to pass, will reduce poverty and maternal mortality in a country with the highest birth rate in the region.
This time HHS pretended Congress wouldn't pass such a "doc fix, " a fake assumption that yields an artificially lower reimbursement rate for the insurers in Advantage.
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