Only 26 of the 3,500 participants in Moldova’s National Dictation event managed to achieve the maximum score, representing 0.74% of the total. Another 105 participants received a score of 9, bringing the number of those who scored 9 or 10 to 131, or just 3.74%, Bani.md reports.
Data released by the Ministry of Education show that approximately one in every 27 participants achieved one of the two highest scores, while a perfect score of 10 was obtained by roughly one in every 135 participants.
In total, 3,369 people, or 96.26% of all participants, received neither a 9 nor a 10.
The National Dictation is an event dedicated to promoting the Romanian language and encouraging correct writing. Participants were asked to transcribe an excerpt from Testamentul (The Will), a satirical comedy by Gheorghe Urschi written approximately 40 years ago.