Crank1000, all you need to do to pass year 12 subjects is show up, nobody fails. Everyone is now graded with a view to a Tertiary Entrance Rank which notionally ranks them on a scale of 100 with everyone in the country.
Old fella, it's attitudes like yours that have resulted in todays education standards. Personally I'd rather have the best people teaching whether at Primary School or Med School than someone who's settled on it because it was easier than what they wanted to do.