The pressure of grades and league tables also works against the interest of the hard sciences.
James has promised to up his grades and is now enrolled in after-school tutoring.
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Beyond grades and gaming achievements, elements such as passion and dedication will be determining factors.
Markers have highlighted problems with basic English in this year's Standard Grades and Highers.
In Atlanta, students' scores improved in all grades and subjects for eight years continuously to 2008.
Second, the early decision applicant pool typically has higher grades and SAT scores than the regular pool.
Parent feedback indicates that students have benefitted greatly from the clubs, improving math grades and overall concentration.
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It seems to equate academic grades and connections with the path to financial superiority in this nation.
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She now has friends, is earning top grades and dreams of working at the UN to help refugees.
For example, treatment in childhood is associated with better grades and less substance abuse during the teenage years.
We had 33:1 in the upper grades and 28:1 in the lower grades, a part-time librarian, a part-time P.
Sahlman told me that beyond high grades and test scores, the HBS admissions department looks for evidence of leadership.
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Now, he has raised his grades and aims to make the honor roll.
Both the grades and the rankings look at how students have improved academically.
On her way to all her Stanford degrees, Marissa Mayer probably got plenty of A grades and high test scores.
In Northern Ireland, students bucked the national trend of falling GCSE grades and instead saw a slight improvement in their results.
In our earnings quality rating system, eight stocks scored high grades, ten got neutral grades and ten failed the smell test.
At Berkeley it's done via "comprehensive reviews" that look at the applicant's whole life experience instead of mere grades and test scores.
The drop in first-quarter production was due to major scheduled plant maintenance during the first quarter, lower copper grades and lower recovery.
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The children who went through the program had higher grades and better literacy in high school and were more likely to graduate.
The law requires schools to test students for math and reading annually in third through eighth grades and once in high school.
In Northern Ireland, students appeared to buck the trend of falling GCSE grades and instead saw a slight improvement in their results.
Meanwhile, as colleges seek more prestige and higher rankings, many are emphasizing scholarships based on high grades and test scores, not financial need.
This kind of financial aid is called academic merit aid, and few colleges offer it based just on grades and test scores alone.
Between inspections, violations and fines, having to earn letter grades and the soda ban plan, the cost of business is too much, he said.
Zopa categorizes borrowers based on their credit grades and lenders can offer terms and amount of money based on the category of the borrower.
Kittila saw record third-quarter production and lower per ounce cash costs because of better than budgeted grades and record mill recovery, the firm said.
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Private universities will create a two-tier university system in which the quality of education is based on family income rather than grades and intelligence.
Grades and education were of paramount importance, and the kids were pushed to go to an American university to get the education their parents never had.
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