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Regardless of the absolute performance of the students, the best score in the group receives a top grade and the worst score receives a failing grade. Numerical values in America are applied to grades as shown below: A = 4; B = 3; C = 2; D = 1; This allows grades to be easily averaged.
Percentage Grade Description 70–100% A: Highest grade 60–69% B: Very strong pass 50–59% C: Pass and be accepted by universities 40-49% D: Borderline: the student has passed but will not be recognised by Universities, indicating they should resit that course 0–39% No Award: The student has failed the course
The simplest definition of literacy in a nation is the percent of people age 15 or older who can read and write, which is used to rank nations. More complex definitions, involving the kind of reading needed for occupations or tasks in daily life, are termed functional literacy, prose literacy, document literacy and quantitative literacy.
Among fourth-graders, the number of students hitting that level was just 60%, reports the Wall Street Journal. The declines have been ongoing since before the pandemic and are widespread across a ...
Grades in American schools range from A (90% to 100%) to F (59% and below), excluding E. To pass a class and receive a credit for it, students usually need to receive a grade between A to D, or 100% to 60%. F, or 59% and below would be failing and students wouldn't receive credit for the class.
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42 percent of American men born into the poorest fifth of families stay in the bottom fifth of the earnings distribution as adults, compared to 25 to 30 percent in some other countries. A smaller percentage of Americans move from the bottom to the top fifth in one generation, than do people in other European countries.
From 1979 through 2007 the wage income for lower- and middle-class citizens has risen by less than 17 percent while the one percent has grown by approximately 156 percent sharply contrasting the "postwar period up through the 1970s when income growth was broadly shared".