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1. a letter or number that shows how well a student has done
2. to decide how well a student has done
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1. a letter or number that shows how well a student has done
▷ grade /greɪd/ [countable noun]
a letter that is put on a student’s work or on an exam to show how good or bad it is :
▪ I wasn’t very happy with the grade on my essay.
▪ Class participation is a quarter of your final grade.
good/bad grade
▪ I need a really good grade on the final exam to pass the class.
get a grade
▪ If he gets good enough grades, he’ll get a scholarship to Michigan State.
▷ mark /mɑːʳk/ [countable noun] especially British
the number or letter that is put on a student’s work to show how good or bad it is :
▪ His mark on the last test gave him a final average of 88%.
get a mark
▪ ‘What mark did you get?’ ‘B.’
good/high mark
▪ She came out with the second highest marks in the class.
bad/low/poor mark
▪ You have to do the course again if you get low marks.
get full marks
get the highest possible marks
▪ I got full marks in the history test.
▷ score /skɔːʳ/ [countable noun] American
a number which shows how well or badly a student has done in an examination, especially an important exam given to a lot of students :
high/low score
▪ Students at King elementary generally have the highest test scores in the city.
score on
▪ Scores on standardized tests have been steadily falling over the past ten years.
▷ results /rɪˈzʌlts/ [plural noun] British
all the marks that a student gets in a set of tests or examinations, that show whether he or she has been successful or not :
▪ The school’s ‘GCSE’ results had been much better the previous year.
get good results
▪ Ceri got better results than she expected.
exam results
▪ David had appaling exam results at school despite his obvious intelligence.
▷ grade point average/GPA /ˌgreɪd pɔɪnt ˈæv ə rɪdʒ, ˌdʒiː piː ˈeɪ/ [countable noun usually singular] American
the average score that a student earns based on all their grades. Usually an A is 4 points, a B is 3 , a C is 2, and a D is 1, and an F is 0 :
▪ To be on the honor roll, students must have a GPA of at least 3.5.
2. to decide how well a student has done
▷ mark British /grade American /mɑːʳk, greɪd/ [transitive verb]
to look at students’ work or examination papers and give them numbers or letters to show how good they are :
▪ I have 48 English papers to grade this evening.
▪ Mrs Parry, have you marked our tests yet?
▪ The examiners who marked her A-level paper were very lenient and gave her a pass.
mark/grade somebody/something on something
▪ The rough draft is graded on content, not on grammar.