When I used to attend college fairs as a college admissions officer many years ago, I remember students telling me how frustrated they were that they were reduced in the admissions process to a mere grade-point average or class rank.
Woods accused law firms of laziness in concentrating on A-level qualifications when recruiting and failing to mention in recruitment literature that BTecs or access to higher education diplomas were also valid entry criteria, while White said firms should invest in more graduate recruiters to help sift applicants by more than mere grades.
"The American economy and people deserve better infrastructure," he said, pointing to the American Society of Civil Engineers annual infrastructure report card, which last year gave the country a mere "D+" grade.
The city's health commissioner, Thomas R. Frieden, said yesterday that he plans to change that, awarding a "Golden Apple" to restaurants that meet a standard higher than a mere passing grade.
In courses where there is not mere rote memorization, grading is often highly subjective and arbitrary.
Apart from mere diagnosis, image-based grading into high- and low-grade fractures can be used for the estimation of healing time and management of SFX [ 3, 8, 9].
While 80% of the sample was currently enrolled in school at Wave 1, a mere 16% reported being at grade level according to the official standards (not shown), and 48% were categorized as at grade level by our less stringent operationalization.
AS burgeoning student musicians at the schools of the Washington National Cathedral, George Robert Steel and Sarah Brook Fels were separated by mere yards and three grades, but never met.
Surveying 3,868 American citizens last July and 382 federal web managers in August, "Government 2.0: The Performance Opportunity" found a mere 17% of managers graded their agencies with an "A" for effectiveness.
This week, the Center for Public Integrity and Global Integrity released findings from their State Integrity Investigation, a comprehensive analysis of government accountability and ethics across the U.S. The results of their study are disturbing: a mere three states earned grades higher than a D+.
