Sentence examples for grade drift from inspiring English sources

The latest civil service statistics show most of the change in median earnings is attributable not to pay rises, but grade drift – a decline in the proportion of lower-paid grades as they have borne the brunt of staff cuts.

This seems to have contributed to pass rates at most grades drifting downwards, although any effect will have been ameliorated by the exams watchdog Ofqual's "ethical commitment" to keeping results consistent from year to year.

Unfortunately, in 11th grade, we drifted apart.

As USA Today reported in November, four-year colleges' grades have drifted steadily upward over the past 50 years, and some researchers link the trend to declining curriculum rigor and education standards.

Dean left school after tenth grade and, after drifting around, wound up in Atlanta, working as a nurse's aide in various hospitals.

Susan dropped out of school in the 11th grade and started drifting.

By the time she was in the third or fourth grade, she said, she drifted away from other sports to concentrate on the pool, and soon was qualifying for sectional championships.

The term 'grade' taken at face value could imply a continuum of biological behaviour with progression between grades – so-called 'phenotypic drift'.

Unlike undergraduate grading, which has drifted northward over the years because most undergraduate campuses do not strictly regulate the schoolwide distribution of As and Bs, law schools have long employed clean, crisp, bell-shaped grading curves.

In his last start, he was nipped by a head by Perfect Drift in the Grade I Stephen Foster Handicap at Churchill Downs.

He dropped out of high school after ninth grade and didn't return, drifting anonymously without the apparent moorings of common teenage interests.