The phrase "a grade based on" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the criteria or factors that determine a student's grade in an academic context.
Example: "The final exam will contribute to a grade based on your overall performance throughout the semester."
Alternatives: "a score determined by" or "an evaluation reliant on".
The Fluor Corporation, an engineering and construction company in Irving, Tex., was the only contractor to receive an A grade based on the data on its Web site.
If you attend recitation regularly (8 or more times), you will receive a grade based on the quality of your work and on the level of your participation.
The algorithm searches through each essay, compares the syntactic patterns in the ungraded essay to the pattern of essays in the training set, and assigns a grade based on its similarity with those syntactic patterns.
The river report card, issued Tuesday by the Potomac Conservancy, awarded the waterway its first B, a grade based on declining pollution levels, the return of bald eagles and other native species, and the expansion of protected forests up and down a watershed stretching across more than 14,000 square miles.
In an hourlong proceeding in State Supreme Court in Manhattan, a lawyer representing the union, the United Federation of Teachers, asserted that the ratings, which give teachers a grade based on how well their students do on annual state standardized tests, should not be released because they were based on flawed information and would unfairly embarrass and harm teachers.
But most importantly for DeSantis's initiative, this is the state where every school gets a grade based on its Big Standardized Test score (currently, in Florida, the FSA).
In 2008 the Florida Department of Education awarded all public schools in the city, with the exception of Coral Springs High School, "A" grades based on their performance on the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test.
Florida's accountability overkill began when Jeb Bush decided to assign each school an A-F grade based on student scores on standardized tests -- a seemingly harmless idea.
Students who stop attending a course without formally dropping it by the deadline should be assigned a letter grade based on the same criteria as students who complete the course.
The first were scores on so-called criterion-referenced tests, which establish a passing grade based on the number of questions answered correctly.
The instructor reserves the right to adjust grades by up to half a letter grade based on knowledge of your performance not summed up in this tidy formula.
