grades

Example Sentences

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Students would know that pressuring professors for grades they don’t deserve could backfire.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 16, 2026

Many students said the system had assigned incorrect grades or issued results to the wrong candidates.

From Barron's • Jun. 16, 2026

Dartmouth has reported median grades since 1994, and it still experienced grade inflation.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 16, 2026

"Praise effort, not intelligence or talent. Praise learning, not grades."

From Science Daily • Jun. 13, 2026

He might dissect, anatomise, and give names; but, not to speak of a final cause, causes in their secondary and tertiary grades were utterly unknown to him.

From "Frankenstein" by Mary Shelley