Sentence examples for pupils waste from inspiring English sources

The Assessment and Qualifications Alliance (AQA), the biggest provider of GCSE and A-level exams, says that at present too many pupils waste time tackling questions that are either too easy or too challenging for them.

As one teacher puts it, staff are obliged to handle pupils "like radioactive waste".

Staff at LSST fear a huge amount of student finance is being wasted on pupils who will not complete their two-year diplomas.

He often drew comical cartoons which appeared in his own self-made school magazine called The Daily Howl, but despite his artistic talent, his school reports were damning: "Certainly on the road to failure ... hopeless ... rather a clown in class ... wasting other pupils' time".

In letters to be sent today, the coalition contends that Channel One wastes taxpayers' money because pupils are required to sit through the programs and commercials and that it exposes children to spots with violent and antisocial content.

The plan is to start each class in Darjeeling and then take it to the Kanchenjunga neighborhood by stages, but non-Indian pupils may object to that as a waste of time.

An amendment submitted by the centrist Democratic Movement Party will also allow school officials to analyze their schools' waste water to find out what pupils are getting high on.

The attainment gap isn't closing – we need to act fast to ensure the opportunity offered by the pupil premium isn't wasted.

The Pittsburgh middle school pupil decided to tackle the problem of government waste and costs in his science fair project.

Alison Ryan, senior policy adviser at the Association of Teachers and Lecturers, added: "The loss of teachers is a tragic and expensive waste, and particularly catastrophic as the number of pupils is set to increase dramatically over the next few years.

Many pupils say it is not challenging enough and therefore a waste of time.