The phrase
"to achieve a grade" means to successfully obtain a score or mark representing your performance or skills, usually in an academic setting.
Full definition
We wanted to target C / D borderline students and support them to
achieve a grade C in maths.
Under comparable outcomes, the regulator ensures that roughly the same proportion of
students achieve each grade as in the previous year.
The findings from this study suggest that many children identified as struggling readers early in their school careers may need at least two years of intense intervention to
achieve grade level expectations.
At higher levels of education this can prevent them
from achieving the grades they fully deserve, or even create resistance to pursue further education.
The previous exams used the norm referencing system, which meant that regardless of how well or badly a year group performed, there would be limits on how
many achieved each grade.
Last year's results in modern foreign languages were very stable, with only small changes in the
proportions achieving each grade compared to the previous year.
But it is achievable, as many cases of high - poverty start - up schools have demonstrated, and a necessary step
toward achieving grade - level pass rates at year's end.
For example, in summer 2017, 2.9 per cent of the pupils of this cohort of
schools achieved grade 9 last summer.
A level grades have not changed, but the subjects have been made harder,
so achieving those grades more difficult, demanding an increase in knowledge retention and skill deployment.
This helps enable students to exceed expected growth year - to - year and
ultimately achieve grade - level proficiency in reading, math and other core subjects.
The system known as «comparable outcomes» - which focuses on the proportion of
students achieving each grade - sparked accusations that the exam boards were being asked to fix results.
We are open to retaining students rather than fostering «social promotion» so that students have a chance to
achieve grade level success.
Teachers claim this is down to The English Baccalaureate (EBacc), which was brought in 2010 for
pupils achieving grades C and above in English, maths, science, languages, geography or history.
Right now, many school leavers will be experiencing jubilation and excitement, having
achieved the grades required to be accepted onto their chosen course at their first choice university.
Having
only achieved a grade 12 science level over 20 + years ago, there is no way that I could ever determine that results were attained by «shoddy» practice.
Regarding KS4 results, the school must publish on its website the percentage of pupils
who achieved grade C or above in GCSEs (or equivalent) in five or more subjects, including English and maths.
They are full of complex sentences / connectives to
achieve a grade A and my students found them very easy...
The letters show that once all GCSE papers were in, a significantly larger number of candidates than expected - some 8 % more - had achieved a grade C.
Last year 80 % of pupils
achieved the grade for English the government expects them to (Level 4), with girls (85 %) outshining boys (75 %).
Beginning in 1986, the rule stipulated, entering freshmen would be eligible for scholarships only if they had
achieved a grade point average of at least 2.0 in a college - preparatory core curriculum and, when it came to the two standard college entrance examinations, attained a minimum score of 700 on the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) or 15 on the American College Testing Program's exam.
This is a 12 page, A4 booklet that explains thoroughly what each Assessment Objective means and what it requires to
achieve the grade desired.
Understanding that when students are focused
on achieving a grade, the impact of feedback is also diluted, teachers are advised to design meaningful formative assessment tasks that give students the freedom to challenge their assumptions.
In schools where the number of children obtaining the EBacc was above the national average in 2015 - 2016, 73.2 per cent of pupils taking up an arts
subject achieved grades A * - C - compared to the national average of 71.7 per cent.
Of the three reformed subjects, grades in English language were the lowest with 53.3 per
cent achieving a grade 5 or above and 69.9 per cent getting a grade 4 or above.
King achieved A grades throughout GCSE and A-level, except in one A-level geography paper, in which he received an ungraded result that he believes was down to the coloured resources in the exam.
Nationally, the proportion of pupils
achieving grades between A * - C in their GCSEs has decreased by 2.1 percentage points.
In past years, as a former special educator, he saw students with
disabilities achieving grades that weren't reflective of grade - level work — with parents given a false sense of how their children performed.
Just one in 10 disadvantaged pupils in
England achieve a grade 7, 8 or 9 in GCSE maths, while nearly twice as many reach an equivalent level in Singapore.
The key subjects are English and maths, so a student who does
n't achieve grade C or above will be given the opportunity to retake these qualifications (or an equivalent) either while completing a course of further education or as part of an apprenticeship.
It says that in 2016, in English and in maths, about 70 % of 16 - year - old
students achieved a grade C or above and so it would expect a similar percentage to achieve a four and above in this summer's exams.
This finding undermines the Government's approach to UTCs and Studio Schools where students are selected into different schools at age 14; and its insistence on resits of GCSE English and maths for students who don't
achieve a grade C or above.
According to USDE, «Since those regulations were published, the experiences of many states, as well as recent research, indicate that in addition to students with the most significant cognitive disabilities, there is a small group of students whose disability has precluded them
from achieving grade - level proficiency and whose progress is such that they will not reach grade - level achievement standards in the same time frame as other students.»
A student
who achieves a grade 7 at GCSE is definitely suitable to study maths at A-level, but because they've fallen short of a grade 9 and 8, grade 7 doesn't feel like enough.
The letters show that once all GCSE papers were marked, a significantly larger number of candidates than expected - some 8 % more - had achieved a grade C.
Extending the learning day for English Learners is critical to their language acquisition and ability to
achieve grade level benchmarks.
The EBacc performance measure counts how many
pupils achieve a grade C or above in specific subject categories (Maths, English, Science, Languages, Humanities).
Our tutors will work with students on the content being tested and assist each student
in achieving grade - level expectations set out in the Common Core Standards.
Following on from that we have received an interim visit in early 2013 and a full inspection in late September 2013, and
we achieved the grade of «Good» with the lead inspector offering the following comments;
About 7 to 10 days before each class exam, students in the intervention group received a survey that asked them to write down the grade they wanted to get on the exam and rate how important it was to them to
achieve that grade and how confident they were that they would meet this goal.
This activity teaches the pupils how to interpret a marking matrix and make judgements as to what is required to
achieve each grade.
In 1989, the mark needed to
achieve a grade C in one mathematics examination for the General Certificate of Secondary Education was 48 percent.