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The eleven-plus (11+) is a standardised examination administered to some students in England and Northern Ireland in their last year of primary education, which governs admission to grammar schools and other secondary schools which use academic selection. The name derives from the age group for secondary entry: 11–12 years.
The grammar schools debate [1] is a debate about the advantages and disadvantages of the existence of grammar schools in the United Kingdom.Grammar schools are state schools which select their pupils on the basis of academic ability, with pupils sitting an exam (called the 11-plus) in the last year of primary school to determine whether or not they gain a place.
The United Kingdom School Certificate was an educational attainment standard qualification, established in 1918 by the Secondary Schools Examinations Council (SSEC). [citation needed]
Switzerland has a grading scheme from 1 to 6, where 6 is the highest, 1 the lowest, and 4 the minimum pass mark; anything below 4 designates insufficient performance. [50] It is used on all levels of education, such as primary schools, lower and higher secondary schools, universities, and vocational education.
O-level logo. The General Certificate of Education (GCE) Ordinary Level, also called the O-level or O level, was a subject-based academic qualification.Introduced in 1951 as a replacement for the 16+ School Certificate (SC), the O-level would act as a pathway to the new, more in-depth and academically rigorous A-level (Advanced Level), in England, Wales and Northern Ireland.
On December 11, 2007, Sun made the UltraSPARC T2 processor design publicly available under the GNU General Public License via the OpenSPARC project. The release includes: Verilog RTL source code of the design; Verification environment; Diagnostics tests; Open source tools, scripts and Sun internal tools needed to simulate the design
According to television historians Castleman and Podrazik (1982), the fall of 1953 marked a change in television when the networks began filling their schedules with "grade B" material. The networks' "need to fill so many hours of broadcasting each day put the networks and local programmers into the same position that Hollywood had been in ...
November 20, 1953: Crossfield after Mach 2 flight. The Douglas D-558-2 Skyrocket, piloted by Scott Crossfield, became the first piloted aircraft to reach Mach 2.; Authorities at the Natural History Museum, London announced that the skull of Piltdown Man (allegedly an early human discovered in 1912) was a hoax.