Ontario schools haven’t had a formal exit exam for as long as I can remember. Final exams of individual classes was what defined your exit grade (usually 20-30%

Ontario schools haven’t had a formal exit exam for as long as I can remember. Final exams of individual classes was what defined your exit grade (usually 20-30%). If you are referring to the exit exam in the link, you also have to remember that grade 8 in 1912 was available to a privileged few. This filtered out people with learning difficulties whose families didn’t feel like spending money on school was a worthwhile investment. Those that had the means to attend school in the 1900s also had time to dedicate to study.