The phrase "achieve the basics" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the attainment of fundamental skills or knowledge in a particular area or subject.
Example: "Before moving on to advanced topics, it's essential to achieve the basics in mathematics."
Alternatives: "master the fundamentals" or "grasp the essentials."
"In education the attainment gap remains unacceptably wide and static – almost two-thirds of children fail to achieve the basics of five GCSEs including English and maths.
Experimental X-ray diffraction (XRD) and computational modelling of these patterns has been carried out to achieve the basics in elucidating their structural properties.
The superintendent, William B. Heebink, said, "As with all suburban schools in the Rockland-Westchester area, we take pride in making sure that all of our students achieve the basics, but we take equal pride in attempting to provide all students with a diversity of challenges to enrich their education".
But the Northern Alliance's triumph does not, by itself, achieve the basic American objective of defeating the Taliban and destroying the terrorist organization Al Qaeda.
Celebrating this decision – albeit made using professional mediators and conflict management experts – to achieve the basic principle of equality does not show the church in a good light.
If they cannot achieve the basic conditions for life and dignity in their country of origin, then, ethically, they are in an analogous situation to refugees.
But the employers can achieve the basic legal minimum wage for the state only by including in the calculation statutory benefits such as maternity pay and sickness benefit, and discretionary items such as free tea.
In the first step, the coarse actuator loop is designed to be stable via active damping and achieve the basic performance.
In this sense, simple controllers can achieve the basic control problems and controllers with more computational resources can be in charge of more complicated decisions.
Although the English favor the procedural approach (whereby a clever copper weighs the evidence and applies deductive reasoning skills to solve a crime), while the Americans go for inductive inference (which involves observing behavior and acting on hunches), both methods achieve the basic objective of the classic mystery -- to cleanse a microcosmic society of an influx of evil.
By that time, the former government had set its sights higher, with the 2006 Leitch review – Prosperity for all in the global economy – setting a new objective for 95% of adults to achieve the basic skills of functional literacy and numeracy by 2020.
