Sentence examples for achieving the benchmark from inspiring English sources

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.

Consequently, composite electrode displayed enhanced catalytic activity for HER and OER, achieving the benchmark current density of 10 mA cm−2 at a low overpotential of 205 mV and 244 mV respectively.

As illustrated by these three country examples, vastly different prospects for achieving the benchmark are observed across all study countries.

Yet challenges remain in achieving the benchmark wait time of 26 weeks from surgeon/patient decision to surgery date [ 2].

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

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.

"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.

It said that if other schools closed this gap, even by half, about 14,000 additional disadvantaged students would achieve the benchmark five GCSEs at grades A* to C every year, a 25% improvement.