total. Of the total failures, 65.7 per cent are
found in the first two years (11,801 out of the total of 17,960). But
the really striking fact is that 34.3 per cent of the failures occur
after the end of the first two years, after 52.2 per cent of the pupils
are gone, and with other hundreds leaving in each succeeding semester
before even the end of the eighth. In Table II we have similar facts
for the pupils who graduate.

TABLE II

THE DISTRIBUTION OF FAILURES ACCORDING TO THE AGES AND THE SEMESTERS
OF THEIR OCCURRENCE FOR THE GRADUATING PUPILS

AGES
SEMESTERS 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 TOTALS

1 B. 0 66 84 60 5 2 3 .. .. .. 220
G. 4 68 123 68 23 4 0 .. .. .. 290
510
2 B. 0 30 95 96 41 3 2 .. .. .. 267
G. 1 25 119 121 30 11 2 .. .. .. 309
576
3 B. 0 6 108 98 71 22 1 3 .. .. 309
G. 1 15 101 158 78 20 5 0 .. .. 378
687
4 B. .. 4 54 157 107 36 6 0 .. .. 364
G. .. 1 45 186 143 51 7 2 .. .. 435
799
5 B. .. 1 10 82 142 82 17 4 3 .. 341
G. .. 0 9 145 187 88 22 9 0 .. 460
801
6 B. .. .. 4 34 158 139 32 9 2 .. 378
G. .. .. 2 70 235 178 40 13 1 .. 539
917
7 B. .. 1 0 10 115 140 65 4 4 1 340
G. .. 0 2 7 130 187 69 19 0 0 414
754
8 B. .. .. .. 0 31 122 65 25 2 .. 245
G. .. .. .. 2 45 150 95 37 2 .. 331
576
9 B. .. .. .. .. 0 24 23 13 1 ..