proficiency
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Park took the California High School Proficiency Exam and graduated from high school in 2021; he then graduated from law school in 2023.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 7, 2023
The original Certificate of Proficiency in English is now known as the C2 Proficiency exam and is the highest-level Cambridge English qualification, Cambridge University Press & Assessment said.
From BBC • Jul. 25, 2023
Proficiency among Washington students is the lowest it’s been in 20 years.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 18, 2023
Proficiency rates dropped by more than 10 percentage points for most racial and ethnic groups.
From Washington Post • Sep. 2, 2022
In 1605 this new idea of discovery was generalized by Francis Bacon in Of the Proficiency and Advancement of Learning.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
Vocabulary lists containing proficiency
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