Sentence examples for achieved the benchmark from inspiring English sources

Also unchanged: only 43 percent of the 1.66 million test-takers achieved the benchmark score, 1550, that indicates readiness for college.

School performance data released by the Department for Education - based on last summer's exam results - shows that on average 56.6% of pupils in state schools in England achieved the benchmark of five good GCSEs including maths and English.

For programmatic purposes, an LGA was determined to be a high priority for programmatic efforts and resource reallocation if it performed below the acceptable benchmark and below the national average or low priority if the LGA had achieved the benchmark.

We categorised performance as A when the benchmark was achieved, I when inadequate, and N.R. when not reported.> For Universality (Additional file 3: Table S1), one study [ 34] achieved the benchmark of 95%% screened in the first month of life (ID1).

In a five-day survey, the delegates found that while Afghan officials have largely achieved the benchmarks on the path toward national elections in 2004, "the conditions necessary for a credible political process are not yet in place," Mr. Pleuger said.

The Living Wage Foundation will suggest to Tesco, Marks & Spencer and John Lewis that they can include annual bonus payments and commissions in their calculations to achieve the benchmark pay rate of at least £8.45 an hour in London and £7.45 outside the capital.

Among poorer white children, meanwhile, just a quarter of boys (24%) and a third of girls (32%) achieve the benchmark of five good GCSEs, leading to calls for schools to target those pupils at risk of falling behind.

There is also the added pressure state schools often face in getting their students to achieve the benchmark figure of 5 A*-C grades, including English and maths, which means some pupils are guided towards so-called "soft-option" courses.

Far from repeating the common complaint that too many students are passing GCSEs, Miles Templesman, the IoD's director-general, says not enough are: The fact that we have a system where we can expect little more than half of pupils to achieve the benchmark of five good GCSEs including English and maths is a fundamental problem.

Linda Parker, director of the Association of Language Learning, says there are worries about pupils who did well in many subjects but narrowly missed achieving the benchmark, and also that pupils unlikely to gain a C grade would still miss out on the chance to study languages.

"I think the girls have done a terrific job of raising their game, and I think we're starting to show we can begin to compete in the group event, but unfortunately this time they didn't achieve the benchmark we'd hoped for," he said.