proficiency
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Proficiency rates across first and second grade were above 70%, and transitional kindergarten was at 48%.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 2, 2025
Only three students took the Certificate of Proficiency in English, which cost them £3 at the time, and took 12 hours to complete.
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, I realized, is not like victory, success or whatever else dominates America’s hierarchy of goals.
From New York Times • Nov. 25, 2021
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
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