"make a grade" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It means to achieve a certain level or score in a test or evaluation. Example: "I studied hard and was able to make a grade of A on the exam."
"It's an easy way to make a grade".
Like feigning Leavisian aliveness to the felt textures of the organic community, theory has become just another one of those things you affect to believe in in order to make a grade.
The Surviving Sepsis Campaign international consensus guidelines for the management of severe sepsis and septic shock make a grade B recommendation for the routine use of early quantitative resuscitation [ 5].
Make a grade book and a bad list.
"Poor fellow," I thought, "He's been recruited all the way to California to make a grade-C sci fi flick!" He asked me to help him record some sounds for the film, and also for his collection of noises, by getting him in to the seminary's big stone chapel and bell tower.
But the plan to replace it was scrapped in 2011 after it was made a Grade II-listed building by Cadw.
In 1952 it was made a Grade I listed building.
The house, which includes the servants' wing and the chapel, was made a Grade II listed building in 1973, and has since been upgraded to Grade I.
The University of Chicago agreed to confer a degree on any graduating senior from an affiliated school who made a grade of A for all four years, and on any other graduate who took twelve weeks additional study at the University of Chicago.
Recently, the U.S. Preventive Service Task Force published a review of the evidence for screening for prostate cancer and made a grade D recommendation against it [ 3].
In 2004, the USPSTF made a Grade D recommendation for testicular self-examination (TSE) or clinical evaluation to screen for testicular cancer in asymptomatic males and then reaffirmed this recommendation in 2009 and again in 2011 [ 6, 7].
