Sentences with phrase «where getting a passing grade»

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For the foundation paper, he said, where 65 per cent of the marks would previously have equalled a grade C, just 50 per cent can now get a pupil a grade four pass.

To understand how unusual the new Common Core Regents grading curve is, imagine a 10 - question test, where you need to get 3.5 questions right to pass, but 6 right to get a B, and 8.5 right to get an A. On the old test, by comparison, you would have needed a similar 3.4 to pass, but only 4.5 correct to get a B, and 7.5 to hit the A. (I calculated these thresholds from Regents conversion charts here and here).

That said, I will give the 3.5 - liter V6 that powers the car more than a passing grade; it got me where I needed to go, and fast, with even better MPGs (+2) than I was expecting.

Where else can someone who is working at unskilled things like serving tables, washing dishes, driving a delivery truck, working at an auto assembly plant or other factory, telemarketing at some boring office or who is otherwise working at any minimum wage job due to a lack of education and / or meaningful real - life experience etc., get to go to real estate classes (hoping that a few months thereafter to be guiding uneducated consumers through the most expensive and most important financial transactions of their lives in trade for big fat commissions) often with a minimalist education (maybe just scraped by at that after multiple attempts to pass grade ten or eleven) and expect to instantly be labelled a professional operative upon passing the real estate courses» exams via penning memorized responses to forewarned - about - exam - questions by instructors who need to display a suitable passing percentage of students to keep their part - time teaching jobs?