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According to a BSI document "Principles of PAS standardization" "The term PAS was originally an acronym derived from "publicly available specification". However, not all PAS documents are structured as specifications and the term is now sufficiently well established not to require any further amplification."
Pass (military), permission for military personnel to be away from their unit; Backstage pass, allows admission to backstage areas of a performance venue; Press pass, grants special privilege or access to journalists; Season ticket, or season pass; Ticket (admission), also called a pass; Transit pass, permitting travel, including:
A PASS device (personal alert safety system), also known as a distress signal unit (DSU) or ADSU (automatic distress signal unit), is a personal safety device used primarily by firefighters entering a hazardous or "immediately dangerous to life and health" environment such as a burning building.
In addition to these tests, students may be required to take tryouts and pilot tests. The following list is current as of spring 2017. It is required for a student to pass the English Language Arts, Mathematics and Science and Technology/Engineering portions of the Grade 10 test in order to meet the Competency Determination requirement. [3]
Grammatical abbreviations are generally written in full or small caps to visually distinguish them from the translations of lexical words. For instance, capital or small-cap PAST (frequently abbreviated to PST) glosses a grammatical past-tense morpheme, while lower-case 'past' would be a literal translation of a word with that meaning.
In this version, E stands for "exemplary" and P proficient, with AE and AP for work that approaches the E and P levels. "Credit" is equivalent to the D level and "No Credit" is equivalent to F. [23] The use of M (for "mediocre") in place of the N and I (for "insufficient") in place of the U was used in some places, and included the F. E (Excellent)
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In later years ordinary level pass marks were graded 1–6, with 1 being the highest. The grading system was further simplified in 1975 when the six pass marks were reduced to three, graded A, B, C. In normalised terms at O level the lower bound for A was then 70% and the lower bound for C 45%. For matriculation purposes C was the lowest pass ...