All passes vs all passed

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All passes vs all passed

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Dear teachers,

I sat for a public examination in 6 subjects, 3 credits and 3 passess, three years ago.
In the first row of my CV, I want to tell people about the exam in general but not in deatiled like this:

Public examination: 2012, 6 subjects, all passess.

But as soon as I had written this, I found that people may get confused with the word, passes, think it is a verb instead of a countable noun.

Shall I use passes (as a noun) or passed (as an adjective) as in my question?
Could you suggest some other words?


Thank you

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Re: All passes vs all passed

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'All passes' in context seems perfectly comprehensible to me! ('Pass' is both a verb and a noun.)
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