Given the fact that many current students entered post-secondary education before Fall 1991 and therefore are not responsible for the examination, this completion rate seems satisfactory. To the knowledge of the Registrar's Graduations office, only two students have had graduation delayed because of non-completion of the Portfolio. The requirement of submitting papers from three courses, only one of them from a composition course, was intended to test the student's writing ability in a variety of academic disciplines. So far the record probably surpasses the expectations of the originators of the examination. In two and one half years, students have submitted papers from 616 different courses taught by 880 different teachers.
Some departments show a remarkable number of different courses producing portfolio submissions.
The initial fear that juniors would not have enough papers to submit has proved groundless. The increase over the three years in the Needs Work category, or in students who are assigned further coursework in composition for their Portfolio requirement, can be explained by the tendency of higher-ability students to take the examination early. The decrease in Distinction may be attributed to the same tendency. Both trends should stabilize in the next few years. Allowed to choose their best work, and composing under examination pressure, the majority of WSU undergraduates write passably according to the cross-disciplinary rating board.