Or, on a school grading system, a "D" --- the same grade as in 2007.
There was no way to tell whether the same passing grade from two different reviewers meant they each received the same quality of service.
Schools Minister Nick Gibb said it was reassuring that the proportion of papers given a new grade was the same as last year.
We went to the same school during first and second grade, and became the best of friends.
Likewise, the neighboring 559 units of Golden Lane Estate built in 1963 by the same architects, also Grade II though less costly, are eagerly snapped up by mid century design purists.
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"One old friend told me he had a huge crush on me in kindergarten, and it tore him apart when we weren't put in the same class in first grade, " she said.
Examiners will struggle too, to produce a single test that measures the same level of ability in children of different ages. (In music tests all candidates for a given grade play the same pieces: in an English test, quite different reading texts and writing topics would suit an eight-year-old than an 11-year-old.) The changes might even have the perverse effect of making children sit more tests.
The same goes for parents of grade-school-athletes playing travel baseball, softball, soccer or basketball in the summer.
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Investors in American investment-grade bonds get the same yield as they would for junk in Japan.
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GPS-grade positioning are available in the same handset will it be possible to realise the true potential of location-based services.
This has led to a spike in demand, which has actually shifted toward higher-grade fuel, while at the same time cramping investment.
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At the same time, smaller countries, such as the Philippines, are being promoted to investment-grade status as the finances of their governments improve.
Late and dramatic changes to GCSE grade boundaries, which left many pupils with the same mark on different grades, are the subject of a legal challenge by heads, local authorities, pupils and teachers.
"I had a tremendous advantage, " said new Jets general manager John Idzik, the son of the former NFL assistant of the same name who took his son to training camps before he was in grade school.
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Is not a teacher who can bring students from housing projects up to grade level in her subject more desirable than one in whose classes the same students are failing?
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The tests are the same for both primary and secondary school teacher trainees, who must also have achieved a grade C or above in GCSE maths and English.
The auctioneer explains that higher prices would drive the sector to increase supply and offer competitive prices for high-grade cuts such as those used for a fillet mignon or a New York strip, at the same time giving domestic consumers good availability of lower-quality, but still superb, meat.
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