The average scores were categorized at each grade level into four groups: below basic, basic, proficient, and advanced.
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And tackling it would entail limiting the share of candidates allowed to get each grade, as happened until the mid-1980s.
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.
The league tables would be compiled by independent monitors, who would grade each bank on its compliance with the industry's code.
The law firm decided to start small--there are only four classes, prekindergarten through second grade--and plans to add a grade each year.
Mr. Rose plans to start with this freshman class and add a new grade each year until there are some 500 kids in grades 9-12.
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The most immediate objective in Paulson's regulatory blueprint--and one he thinks could become a reality before he leaves office next year--is the creation of a Mortgage Origination Commission that would establish minimum standards for mortgage brokers and would grade each state's mortgage regulatory system.
In this, our second annual survey of corporate earnings quality, we tear apart the financial statements of Wall Street's favorite growth stocks and give a grade to each.
But, she said, the government was already planning to replace league tables with an overall grade for each school that would consider things such as children's behaviour as well as exam results.
Each GCSE-level qualification and grade is given a score in points, enabling an average point score per pupil to be calculated for each school.
Another is to publish the percentage marks scored, or to show the grade gained on each bit of the exam.
For colliders, where accelerated particles collide with each other, a high-grade vacuum is even more important.
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There was no way to tell whether the same passing grade from two different reviewers meant they each received the same quality of service.
By experiencing each discipline offered through our magnet program in the 6th grade, students can make informed decisions about their future coursework in the 7th and 8th grades.
The AK-47, for example, is widely available to private citizens around the U.S. as a semi-automatic version (firing one shot each time the trigger is pulled), but the military grade fully automatic (continuous fire while the trigger is depressed) model is illegal almost everywhere.
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Further, why are we advancing children to the next level, or grade, on an annual basis, as opposed to when each is ready?
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Every year through to Grade 12, we sit three exams at the end of each term for every single subject, and the final term exam we have to pass (and pass it well), or we fail and we would have to repeat the year, while some of our friends move on.
All teams at each level are able, if they win their league, to move up a grade.
We looked back over the period stretching from January 1, 1997 to February 29, 2012 to see how movements of stocks, Treasuries and lower-grade fixed income investments like high-yield bonds and bank loans, related to each other.
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They indicate the minimum score on each of the four subject tests for a student who has a 75% chance of earning a grade of C or higher or a 50% chance of earning a B or higher in a typical first-year college course.
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For private individuals, holding investment-grade gold in secure, professional vaults can cost you just a fraction of a per cent each year.
In fourth-grade reading, six urban districts have participated since the exam was first given in 2002 and each posted gains of at least twice the national average of three points.
Watching my newly minted 7th-grade daughter excitedly high-five her friends on the first day, I reminded myself that each new academic year is an opportunity for us as parents, to learn that fine balance between coach and cheerleader.
He fasted twice a week and, each morning after dawn prayers, studied the Koran, which he had memorized by the time he finished sixth grade.
The Grade II-listed tunnel, which opened in 1951, is used for about 20, 000 journeys each month.
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