Washington Readies for High School Exit Exam.

The article reports on alternative methods available for students who fail to qualify the exit-exam test for graduation in Washington. The first method looks at a student's grade point average in the subject of the section of the test the student failed and compares it with the averages of comparable students at his or her high school who took the same sequence of courses. The second method, for writing only, requires the school to assemble a portfolio of the student's writing. The third method, for math only, requires earning a score on the math section of the PSAT, the SAT or the ACT that is equivalent to passing that section of the state exam.