The overall grade rose from a C to a C+.
And in this case, speed of enactment merits substantial weight in the overall grade.
With doctors, however, there were no detailed descriptions of medical skill beyond the overall grade.
Syllm-Rapoport concluded her studies with the overall grade of magna cum laude (with great distinction).
"I think it's extremely unlikely that the overall grade would be eliminated," said Andrew Jacob, an Education Department spokesman.
A major final-year project will contribute to a significant portion of the overall grade.
He added that the overall grade contrasts were probably caused by "different batches of the product, one more sophisticated than the other".
"Everyone's a bit worried because this biology exam has such a high weighting for the total grades so it's really affecting what the overall grade will be".
Ratings by parents, teachers and students helped give it an F in school environment, which accounts for 15percentt of the overall grade.
This year, each report card's three subsections were also assigned three letter grades — for progress, performance and environment — instead of just the overall grade.
In only a few cases did this affect the overall grade: eight students' AS grades, two A-level grades and four GCSE grades improved as a result.
