Sentences with phrase «good grade average»

Also, you might be able to avoid high insurance premiums if you participate in a driver - training program, you maintain a good grade average in school or if your car has safety features.

Look for «good student» discounts Some auto insurance companies offer discounts to policies with teen drivers if they have a B or better grade average at school.

Students with a B or better grade average may be eligible for a discount on teen auto insurance.

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They don't want to risk their grade in the class by dividing the work equally and hoping that Timmy (the guy who is absent from class two days a week on average and sleeps through class on the other three days) does his part well, if he remembers to do it at all.

Average gold grades achieved in the June half from Karouni were also quite good at 3.37 grams per tonne for the 357 000 tonnes of ore mined.

When the team looked at these numbers — average rate of improvement between third and eighth grade in math and reading — many schools that are traditionally thought of as «bad» suddenly seemed good.

The government requires students to maintain at least a C grade - point average, but some schools have their own standards as well.

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On average, Americans got 42 percent of the answers right (5 of 12); college graduates did a little better (6.8 of 12 — still a failing grade).

Like Harry, every adolescent — and every adult — faces defining choices in responding to good and to evil, choices that count for much more than SAT scores, grade - point averages or adjusted gross income.

As it turns out, those who are considered be physically «above average» are liked just a little more by teachers, get better grades and, ultimately, have a better shot at going to college.

I know he apparently played very well at guard, but PFF graded him poor last season at tackle and it seems like yet another overpay for an average lineman.

The SEC technically still grades out as the nation's best conference, on average, this season.

He's been a very average wr according to PFF's grades and was in the best situation possible for production in Carolina.

Unsurprisingly, this was received with criticism among my athlete friends at Princeton, who by my knowledge, received average or better - than - average grades than the regular student body.

Even though almost every student at the KIPP Academy... is from a low - income family, and all but a few are either black or Hispanic, and most enter below grade level, they are still a step above other kids in the neighborhood; on their math tests in the fourth grade (the year before they arrived at KIPP), KIPP students in the Bronx scored well above the average for the district, and on their fourth - grade reading tests they often scored above the average for the entire city.

He said he continues to follow a high school student he met who didn't do well on tests, but had a consistently high grade point average.

According to Read to Succeed Executive Director Anne Ryan, students who miss 10 percent of kindergarten and first grade scored an average of 60 points below similar students with good attendance on third grade reading tests.

The science track, considered the most prestigious and difficult, attracted 40 % of the boys in the study's sample but only 17 % of the girls, even though the girls, on average, had math records as good as the boys and better overall grades.

About 17 percent earned grades of «average» or better and only one in six has ever been updated.

The research team, led by Joseph Graziano, PhD, professor of Environmental Health Sciences at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health, assessed 272 children in grades 3 - 5, who were, on average, 10 years old, from three school districts in Maine where household wells are the predominant source for drinking water and cooking.

Last school year in the 2nd grade she excelled and her reading scores are very high and she is well above average in reading.

(Consider the above grade an average of Kidnap's merits as a piece of filmmaking, which are about an F, and its modest value as a thing that might be called «a good time.»)

CASEL president Roger P. Weissberg and Joseph Durlak, a Loyola University psychologist, reviewed 300 studies and found that, compared with nonparticipants, students participating in programs aimed at improving the social and emotional learning environment in schools «have significantly better attendance records; their classroom behavior is more constructive and less often disruptive; they like school more; and they have better grade point averages.

Bangladeshi, Indian, black African and Pakistani pupils from poorer homes were also found to perform «well above» the national average, while white working class boys achieve the lowest grades at GCSE of any main ethnic group.

We find that students, on average, experience better outcomes when they are in a grade cohort that puts its school at risk of receiving a Low - Performing rating.

«There are always caveats with this type of analysis, but the results suggest that students participating in the Silver CREST Awards achieve about half a grade higher on their best science GCSE result on average compared with a statistically - similar control group.

The NSN research found that 33.2 per cent (3,802) of schools graded good or outstanding by Ofsted is falling short of average attainment.

Interestingly enough, no study has yet shown better high school test scores, but the Boston studies have shown higher grade point averages and, of course, attendance goes through the roof and dropout rates are decreased.

The new initiative will help hire an additional 100,000 well - prepared teachers and reduce class size in grades 1 - 3 to a nationwide average of 18.

We looked at whether 7th graders in a particular school performed better than the same school's 8th graders (relative to the national average for their respective grades) when, on average, the 7th - grade classes were smaller than the 8th - grade classes.

A student of average motivation (he understands the importance of academic performance and wants to do well in school) has set a goal to get a good grade on an upcoming test.

Students performed variously well or poorly and earned (or were awarded) grades according to achievement — A for superior performance, B for better - than - average performance, C for average performance, D for below - average performance, and F for insufficient performance.

It also works so it takes the best performing, composing and listening grade and averages them out to give an overall working at level in the end column.

Students in the schools in this sample are more likely to have married parents (70.7 percent versus 61.7 percent statewide with third grade test scores), less likely to have fathers absent at the time of birth (9.8 percent versus 15.2 percent statewide), less likely to have Medicaid - funded births (a proxy for poverty at the time of birth, 37.7 percent versus 48.8 percent statewide), and have relatively better educated mothers (13.1 years of maternal education at the time of the child's birth, versus 12.5 years on average statewide).

Some thought the best evidence came from averaging all the test score results together, while others thought the scores of students at each grade level should be looked at separately.

Sharnbrook Upper School repeats exam success with top GCSE grades well above national average

The school's sixth form recorded an overall A level pass rate of 99 %, with a brilliant 82 % of entries graded A * to C and 55 % of all exams receiving top grades of A * to B, well above the national average.

In «The End of Average» Todd Rose argues the metrics we use to assess success — test scores, performance reviews, and grades — are antiquated and doing more harm than good.»

The results show average reading scores in fourth grade reading dipped to levels of a decade ago and eighth grade scores declined as well.

The eighth - grade drops were not as dramatic, and the state still performed better than the national average in many areas.

In fourth - grade math, DCPS's black students» average scale score was better than their peers» average in only four cities.

While the grades — first given districtwide last month — are not factored into students» overall grade point averages, those who score well on the measurements earn a «hire me first»...

Since the grades assigned vary much less across classrooms than does students» performance on standardized tests, high - achieving students should be more likely to earn high grades in classrooms where the other students, on average, do not perform well on external assessments.

We also found that higher - achieving classes, as measured by their average 3rd - grade test score in the relevant subject, may fare somewhat better than lower - achieving classes under teachers with tough grading standards.

(Only fourth - grade reading was flat in Florida, but it well exceeds the national average.)

Average students» scores remain well below what test overseers consider to be «proficient» for each grade level.

«74.1 percent of the students passed algebra I with an average grade of «D - «or better when they attempted Algebra I for the second time.

In fact, high school grade point average (GPA) is as good a predictor, and often, better predictor of first - year college success AND four - year college persistence than the SAT (See here and here and here and here and here).

Doing only slightly better than the national average in fourth grade reading, with a statistically significant declining average reading score