Sentences with phrase «first year tests»

A total of 16 pupils were affected by the school's policy of «grade exclusion» because they didn't achieve at least three B - grades in their first year tests.

A number of parents threatened the school with legal action over the summer after their children were prevented from beginning their second year of A-levels because they didn't achieve at least three B - grades in their first year tests.

This story has been updated to clarify that the Smarter Balanced math scores for the Cupertino and San Francisco school districts exceeded the average statewide scores for the first year the test was administered.

Not exact matches

A delay of the CSeries delivery was widely anticipated due to the small number of test flights since Sept. 16, when the CS100 flew for the first time after years of preparatory work.

An important trigger this year will be the outcome of a study where Darzalex is being tested as first - line treatment in combination with Celgene Corp's Revlimid.

MONTREAL — Bombardier Aerospace has delayed delivery of its first new CSeries commercial aircraft by several months and potentially more than a year, saying it needs more time for testing and preparation.

As Americans slept through the first few hours of July 4, Kim Jong Un personally observed the culmination of a years - long goal — the testing of a missile that he can use to nuke the US mainland.

Strikingly for Agios and partner Celgene, the therapy was in human clinical testing not so long ago (there was just a three year gap between the first human studies and Agios» regulatory submission to the FDA).

Fresh off the launch of Falcon Heavy — which can lift nearly three times as much as the next largest rockets in operation — Musk is touting BFR as on track to begin testing «short trips» by the «first half of next year.»

Amulet, which has been in testing for four years, released its first product line last year and has seen a surge of interest after every mass shooting in America — particularly over the past week.

The trial was one of three scheduled for the first half of this year over claims that Volkswagen deceived customers with the deliberate rigging of emissions controls to perform differently when being tested than they do on the road.

«As relevant today as when they first appeared nearly 75 years ago, the teachings of Benjamin Graham, «the father of value investing,» have withstood the test of time across a wide diversity of market conditions, countries, and asset classes.»

It took me a full year to lose the weight, and when I first started, I tested a Rebel Desk with a treadmill.

Given the high failure rate of startups in their first year, a business plan is also an ideal opportunity to safely test out the feasibility of a business and spot flaws, set aside unrealistic projections and identify and analyze the competition.

It's already had some success: The company's first product, the Zero1, finished first in the NFL's annual safety test last year.

The latter two milestones were first set by former Air Force test pilot Joseph Kittinger in 1960, who served as Baumgartner's mentor throughout five years of meticulous preparation.

Here's a timeline of North Korea's brazen missile tests during President Donald Trump's first year in office.

The test is one of several blockchain experiments State Street and other financial institutions have been working on over the past year as Wall Street grows increasingly hopeful that the technology, first developed to run cryptocurrency bitcoin, can help them increase efficiency and cut costs.

The Falcon Heavy has been in the works for years and was expected to make its first test flight in 2013.

This alarms many in academia, as business majors have «the weakest gains during the first two years of college on a national test of writing and reasoning skills.»

Delphi Automotive (dlph) will launch a small test fleet of automated taxis in Singapore next year, aiming to ferry passengers around a city district in one of the first real - world tests of automated rides on demand, the company said on Monday.

I've been testing phones since they first debuted over ten years ago.

The next couple of years will be, if you will, the first road test for some of the biggest finance fixes inspired by the meltdown of 2008 - 2009.

In this case, SpaceX is planning to send the tourists to space in a Dragon 2 spacecraft currently under development, with its first uncrewed test flight planned for this summer, and its first flight to the International Space Station planned for late this year.

The first is the physical presence test, which means you have been in a foreign country for 330 days of the year.

McDonald's first - quarter same - store sales rose 5.4 %, propelled by interest in all - day breakfast, the company's new» McPick 2» value menu that launched earlier this year and new products such as kale bowls and yogurt smoothies being tested in various parts of the country.

The first few years in business is a test of anyone's mettle, which is why you need to get really clear on what is and isn't acceptable to you.

It also saw the first payments flow from the accompanying program, the income - tested Old Age Assistance for 65 to 69 - year - olds.

After a year - and - a-half of testing, Google mobile - first indexing is beginning.

Earlier this year, it became the first company to successfully test a prototype of a lunar lander at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

One of the first tests I did when I got AmiBroker twenty years ago was a mean reversion test.

Korean leaders to meet at North - South border on Friday: BBC Chinese geologists say N. Korea's main nuclear test site has likely collapsed: WaPo China air force intimidates Taiwan with military flights around island: Reuters Conservative Supreme Court justices appear to back Trump's travel ban: The Hill French president expects Trump will withdraw from Iranian nuclear deal: BBC Rising interest rates keep Wall Street on edge: CBS Investors will focus on various inflation numbers in days ahead: Bloomberg A closer look at the 10 - year Treasury yield's rise to 3 %: Calafia Beach Pundit T. Rowe Price's assets under mgt top $ 1 trillion — a sign of active mgt growth: P&I World trade volume slumped 0.4 % in Feb, first monthly loss since Oct: CPB

If you fall into the first category — that is, you won't reach full retirement age until after the current year — you face the stricter form of the earnings test.

The world's first «test tube baby» turns 40 next year.

Fully autonomous cars are being tested on roads today, and the first commercially available semi-autonomous cars could be on the road in the next 1 - 2 years.

You need to meet the IRS» time test, which states that «After the move, you must work full - time at your new job for at least 39 weeks the first year.»

To test robustness of findings, they: (1) account for one - way trading frictions ranging from 0.02 % to 0.05 % across assets; (2) consider five subperiods to test consistency over time; and, (3) perform out - of - sample tests using the first part of each subperiod to select the best rules and roughly the last year to measure performance of these rules out - of - sample.

The decision follows two years of testing and is among the first attempts to use blockchain to clear a major asset class.

«For the first time in years, interest rates are beginning to rise — making it increasingly important for Canadians looking to buy a home to stress - test their mortgage against a higher rate to ensure they can afford it over the long term,» said Martin Nel, Head, Personal Banking, BMO Bank of Montreal.

Project will further on - road testing in the Kanata North tech park, where BlackBerry conducted the first demonstration of an autonomous vehicle on a public street in Canada last year.

The tests became more frequent, and each successful test brought the people from Rafael closer to their great goal: to provide, for the first time anywhere in the world, a crushing response to the threat of short - range rockets, that had for years left people in Israel's southern and northern border regions helpless.

By March of that year, she began beta testing her first draft.

«Having had our first efforts with STA turn our brilliantly, with the hiring of a candidate that we have very high hopes for over the coming years, I am please to say that STA passed the test with flying colours»

After reserving the first year for initial momentum calculations, they segment each sample into halves for in - sample optimization of B and T and out - of - sample testing.

The test of vigilance which faces the American public comes in the year of our bicentennial when most of all we should, in the words of Tom Paine, «refresh our patriotism by reference to first principles.»

The first created Model A Ford didn't just evolve into a Mustang, it was designed through many years of test models in between.

This is because you can never test every possible universal permutation of the theory / hypothesis, and because none of us were there 8 billion years ago when the Earth was first formed.

I remember so many years ago when I took my first personality test.

Red Dwarf «Mistaken or flawed identification has assumed a newfound prominence in recent years: It's been cited as a factor in nearly 78 percent of the nation's first 130 convictions later overturned by DNA testing, according to the New York - based Innocence Project, which works to free the wrongly convicted.

«Mistaken or flawed identification has assumed a newfound prominence in recent years: It's been cited as a factor in nearly 78 percent of the nation's first 130 convictions later overturned by DNA testing, according to the New York - based Innocence Project, which works to free the wrongly convicted.