The problem is not that we have a school grade - the problem is that it is not kept separate. School grades show us a lot - how the student works, perseveres, improves, invests effort, performs in class, etc. The Bagrut shows the grade of a particular test. Averaging them together is like taking half and apple and half an orange, and gluing them together to create an "average fruit". A help to average the Bagrut can be a matkonet test. That makes some sense. The overall school grade should be taken into consideration, as a separate entity alongside the Bagrut, by college/univeristy acceptance committees. But then, of course, they will have to work a little harder. How could we expect that? What are they, teachers or something? Judy Cohen -- "Music will save the world." Pablo Casals ----------------------------------------------- ** Etni homepage - http://www.etni.org or - http://www.etni.org.il ** ** for help - ask@xxxxxxxx ** ** to post to this list - etni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ** -----------------------------------------------