Evidence? Because according to your "High School" link the information on India makes no mention of "standards", nor does it do so for New Zealand, South Africa or Singapore.
This is a lie! Don't you realize people can check?
Since you will not be honest and report the actual words in those links, I will do so for you, plus using additional links:
Read and weep!:
"In
New Zealand children start ON their 5th birthday (the day of their birthday, or the day after) so ages are not set in concrete.
Primary school
New Entrants- 5
Primer 1- 6
Primer 2- 7
Primer 3- 8
Standard 1- 9
Standard 2- 10"
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/archive/index.php/t-512161.html
Malaysia:
Secondary education, like primary education is now compulsory in Malaysia. Primary schools run from Year 1 to Year 6 (also known as Standard 1 to 6, for children aged 6+ to 12+),
http://www.associatepublisher.com/e/h/hi/high_school.htm
Your forum link indicates the New Zealand used to use the term Standard but only in primary school and no mention was made of exams.
No one said they were supposed to be together in the same place. The exams I will supply in a moment. Still you said there were no Standards and there is.
Scotland does have "Standards", however this not the name for a class it is a name for a set of exams taken at 16 (i.e. like the english GCSE) with the "Highers" taken at 18 (like the english A Level).
You said there were NO "Standards" in the British Educational System. YOU ARE WRONG!
Standard 2 etc have never been terms used in British schools, so what you describe just didn't happen under the British educational system.
False! Why did you ignore the following entry?:
STANDARD:
7. Chiefly British A grade level in elementary schools.
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/standard
The words above speak plainly. I couldn't make it clearer.
Now you are admitting it grudgingly.
Here - let me supply you with some more:
INDIA
Standards
1st Standard to 3rd Standard - Marathi
 4th Standard Hindi and Marathi
 5th Standard to 8th Standard Hindi and Marathi or Gujrathi
 9th Standard and 10th Standard Hind
http://www.utpalshanghvischool.org/IGCSE/FAQ_s_IGCSE___CIPP.pdf
Of course you have now admitted that it you were educated somewhere in the commonwealth and not britain.
I never said it was Britain - I said BRITISH educational system.
ABOUT THE EXAMS:
Primary School-Leaving Exam.
Primary School Leaving Examination - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
BRITISH COMMONWEALTH COUNTRIES:
http://www.tntisland.com/countries.html
In most countries, students who do not meet the required criteria are not promoted to the next higher grade. However, in a few counties, there is automatic promotion from one grade to another irrespective of student performance at the end of yearsummative examination. .... http://www.seameo.org/vl/library/dlwelcome/publications/ebook/exam/2ndintro.htm
There is
one final examination held in the academic year in May for all classes, except Year 10 which has a mid year exam in December as well.
All graded work is accumulated and this,
together with the examination result, determines the final grade for the year. Promotion to the next class is based on the total performance for the year.
http://www.british-school.org/guidance.htm
Malaysia
Forms 1 to 3 are known as the lower secondary level and at the end of Form 3,
pupils sit for the PMR examination. This replaced the SRP (Sijil Rendah Pelajaran) or LCE where
a pass was required for promotion to Form 4.
http://schools-wikipedia.org/wp/s/Secondary_education.htm
Lesotho
The 66.0 percent promotion rate for Standard 1, with a repetition rate of 24.1 percent, indicates that many pupils are caught up in a continuous round of repeating until they are either promoted or drop-out.
http://www.unesco.org/education/wef/countryreports/lesotho/rapport_2.html
Really. All those links confirm what I said.
NOT TRUE!!!!
Nowhere in those links does it say that there is a final exam for each class or standard.
There is far too much information for me to list here.
Do you still maintain that view?
This was your earlier claim
In the Malaysian system (which does call its primary school classes Standard) the article directly refutes your claim.
It does not. See above.
Nowhere does it even imply that every standard has a final exam.
It does mention 1 exam.
Now you know better.
Failing this exam does not prevent student from moving from Standard 3 to Standard 4, instead excelling in this exam allows them to move directly to Standard 5.
Doesn't matter. You see standards and you see exams. As already brought out, some schools had both.
Standard? Why are you using that horrible word? You said it does not apply in the
British System - did you not? You see it and still you will not acknowlege it.
Seems like you were not telling the truth.
In secondary school there are 2 exams mentioned. The first is in Form 3
Again no indication that failure means they will not go to the next class as you claimed.
Niow you know better.
The second is taken in Form 5.
This is where the Malaysian system certainly diverges from the British system as there is no "Graduation" from secondary school in the UK. Once the final year is over the student leaves secondary school irrespective of their academic achievement, there is no final exam.
That is irrelevant - not a part of my contention.
Lets take a look at your link about High (or Secondary) schools. None of the entries mention anything about a final exam being needed to progress to the next class.
Now you know better.
"School Leavers Exam" does not refer to a single exam needed to graduate from secondary school because mandatory education is based on age not achievement under the British system. Instead it is a term for a group of exams in different subjects taken in the final year of school. A student can fail every single subject and still leave school.
More irrelevant stuff - thrown in for the sake of argument.
You have provided zero evidence for your claims and plenty of evidence against them in those links.
You must be blind! And not just in a physical sense.
The Parochial primary school that I attended had those conditions. Nothing that I said is a lie. I took every one of those yearly exams and even had the privilege of making it to first place once, in Standard 5. That year I made it to the National Spelling Bee. The School-Leaving exam was the toughest.
Remember this one thing:
I never said that Standards and exams for promotion applied in EVERY school in the British educational system. No need looking for information to counter that.
You have got a lot of hard bark on you, David, and I know you will argue some more. I found a lot more material, but it won't help you. You are the kind that will go down cussin'. Like Sadaam Hussein who claimed he had won Desert Storm, you will try to snatch victory even in abject defeat.
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