The demand by parents and high schools to look at the "total child" seems legitimate; colleges are looking at class rank only because they are relying on grade point average, which seems illegitimate.
Before starting a grade appeal, determine if you have a legitimate basis to ask your professor for a grade review.
These cases involved significant, legitimate diagnostic uncertainties and tended to reflect differences in judgments on grading in borderline cases or aggressiveness in interpreting superficial invasion in the context of intense inflammation.
But the idea, explored in detail — what, who, when, where, why, how, those questions Becky had obediently followed in grade school without recognizing the terror of such scrutiny — was disturbing, not even a legitimate secret.
Unhappiness with the grade you earned or desire to escape the consequences of your poor grade are not legitimate reasons for requesting a grade change.
There's a lot of (legitimate) pushback to the notion that art can be taught, or that assignments do anything except promote subservience and callow grade grubbing.
Small wonder, when exports of his main product equalled in 1998 all Myanmar's legitimate exports put together.His success came from making a product superior to other people's: in his case, No. 4 grade China white.
Already, these critics say, some parents with legitimate concerns about their daughters' early development are being brushed off by pediatricians who believe puberty in the first or second grade is normal.
Nowadays, Clearing is seen as a legitimate route into higher education, not simply a way in for those who didn't achieve their A-level grades, says Alison Wilde, admissions manager at Nottingham Trent University.
