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much of the grading of the tests is subjective and he doesnt put much stock in them tell us litre i think they tell us very little about the quality of education our kids are get ting he said they are a political exercise and cer tainly not an accurate rep resentation of how our- schools are performing i really hope the liberal gov ernment takes a close look at them and does away with them altogether the scores the percentage of grade 3 stu dents who scored three or four on the eqao tests in the towns five elementary schools are as follows ballantrae reading 79 writing 83 math 93 average 85 orchard parte reading 89 writing 70 math 93 average 84 whitchurch highlands reading 83 writing 80 math 89 average 84 summitview reading 67 writing 79 math 78 average 75 glad parte reading 46 writing 57 math 53 average 52 board average reading 62 writ ing 67 math 72 average 67 provincial average reading 53 writing 59 math 60 average 57 the percentage of whitchurch- stoufmlle grade 6 students who 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