1 in 3 Jewish students gets special dispensation on Bagrut [national exam]

Ha'aretz
...In the matriculation exams held during the summer of 2008, 67,000 students (or 26.1 percent of those tested) received accommodations - such as being allowed 35 percent more time, having questions read out loud to them, being allowed to answer orally instead of in writing, not having points taken off for incorrect spelling, shortened tests and more...

........To give accommodations [in such a fashion] is almost criminal," said Dr. Michal Shany of the Haifa University's Department of Learning Disabilities in the faculty of education.

......Other large gaps exist between Jewish and Arab students: 31 percent and nine percent respectively. Some seven percent of Druze students and only three percent of Beduin pupils are entitled to such accommodations. Full story