The QCEA's (Qatar's Comprehensive Educational Assessments) have existed since 2004, as evaluation tools, that presumably needed to test students to obtain valid results for international data. Until 2010, when it was issued that these tests will take part as external assessments in a student's final grade, making up for 30% of a student's final grade. The entire country had no say in it. But it somehow, left little to no effect on the final grade of all students of the year 2011. In 2012, it was presumed to be no different, except for an addition of an extra subject. The students assumed that the test, which consisted of all the content of a curriculum of two semesters, ought to be very similar to the previous ones. Yet when they all obtained their report cards, almost 99% percent of all students faced a massive decline in their grade from their typical internal school grade. The decline was so great, that it might actually lead to an even greater number of students not attending college, let alone reach excellence. Rather non-scientifically, no one below the tower knows what went wrong, and we simply demand a solution to the matter.

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