The phrase 'get high grades' is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it when you are talking about achieving good grades in school or university. For example, "I am determined to get high grades this semester."
Knowing that he had no chance at athletic accomplishment, he resolved to get high grades.
JEFFREY TOOBIN: Get high grades, get on law review, and get a clerkship with a "feeder" lower court judge.
A HARVARD UNIVERSITY report last spring complained of grade inflation that makes it easier to get high grades.
In the pinch, Marcel Grossmann, a brilliant math student whose meticulous lecture notes helped Einstein get high grades at the Zurich Polytechnic, managed to secure him a job at the Swiss Patent Office, in Bern.
"Another myth is that engineering only needs academics who get high grades in all the science subjects and want to spend a long time at university before going into a research and development role," Hanbury says.
Re "The College Admissions Derby" (Op-Ed, April 13): It is likely that students who feel that they must compromise their values to get high grades and test scores are aware of such behavior in government and business, as exemplified by the Enron scandals.
More students are taking smart drugs to get higher grades and universities are experiencing an increase in mental health problems.
It also does not question the English orthodoxy that it is always better to get higher grades in exams.
A concern some educators have expressed about showing students previous grades is that it could lead to students choosing what look like easier courses in order to get higher grades, resulting in grade inflation.
In your opinion should he go to a smaller, less prestigious school where he can presumably get higher grades and get to know professors well for recommendations, or go to a larger, more prestigious school?
In high school and college math and science courses, studies have shown that when women have a female instructor, they get higher grades, participate more in class and are more likely to continue to pursue the subject.
