To attach the preparatory to the senior school these three classes were known officially, on speech days and in reports, as upper, middle, and lower second.

作为高中的预备班，在演讲日和报告中，这三个班被正式称为上、中、下二班。

youdao

youdao

youdao

To be eligible for a postgraduate grant, Manx students must now gain an upper second degree whereas it was previously a lower second.

BBC: Isle of Man student grant future 'uncertain'

Employers are much less likely to use an upper second class degree - a 2:1 - as a "gold standard" for deciding which students to recruit.

BBC: Graduate literacy 'worries firms'

Just over half (53%) of white British students were awarded upper second class degrees, while almost 40% of black or black British Caribbean students did so.

BBC: Doreen Lawrence launches race education centre