> but IMHO not when the idea is to benchmark against a level of achievement. Yeah but the level of achievement required for starting university education has s

> but IMHO not when the idea is to benchmark against a level of achievement. Yeah but the level of achievement required for starting university education has steadily dropped, and university enrollment has risen as a result. I once read an article that claimed to have done the math for this, on math. It claimed that the absolute top grade in 1976 in high school math would have been insufficient to have gotten you into university just 15 years earlier. I believe they assumed you answered all the questions asked correctly and would leave any more advanced questions blank.