Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of, relating to, or being a system of grading in which a student simply passes or fails instead of receiving a traditional letter grade.
- noun This kind of a grading system.
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- adjective Describing a form of
examination etc in which the student either passes or fails without receiving a specificmark orgrade
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Examples
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These questions and many others I have about how effective I was in teaching my students will be up to me to answer; my official evaluation will be nothing more than a rudimentary pass-fail assessment of my efforts and my efficacy with my students.
Grace Snodgrass: Making Evaluations Matter Grace Snodgrass 2011
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These questions and many others I have about how effective I was in teaching my students will be up to me to answer; my official evaluation will be nothing more than a rudimentary pass-fail assessment of my efforts and my efficacy with my students.
Grace Snodgrass: Making Evaluations Matter Grace Snodgrass 2011
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These questions and many others I have about how effective I was in teaching my students will be up to me to answer; my official evaluation will be nothing more than a rudimentary pass-fail assessment of my efforts and my efficacy with my students.
Grace Snodgrass: Making Evaluations Matter Grace Snodgrass 2011
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These questions and many others I have about how effective I was in teaching my students will be up to me to answer; my official evaluation will be nothing more than a rudimentary pass-fail assessment of my efforts and my efficacy with my students.
Grace Snodgrass: Making Evaluations Matter Grace Snodgrass 2011
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And he has apologized repeatedly for his 2008 vote in favor of the federal bank bailouts, a pass-fail test for conservative activists.
In Utah, Sen. Hatch courts tea partyers one by one in quest for survival 2011
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These questions and many others I have about how effective I was in teaching my students will be up to me to answer; my official evaluation will be nothing more than a rudimentary pass-fail assessment of my efforts and my efficacy with my students.
Grace Snodgrass: Making Evaluations Matter Grace Snodgrass 2011
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These questions and many others I have about how effective I was in teaching my students will be up to me to answer; my official evaluation will be nothing more than a rudimentary pass-fail assessment of my efforts and my efficacy with my students.
Grace Snodgrass: Making Evaluations Matter Grace Snodgrass 2011
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Currently, the auditor's opinion included in every annual report is "pass-fail": Either a company is fairly presenting its financial statements in the auditor's eyes, or it isn't.
Auditors Urged to Tell More Michael Rapoport 2011
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These questions and many others I have about how effective I was in teaching my students will be up to me to answer; my official evaluation will be nothing more than a rudimentary pass-fail assessment of my efforts and my efficacy with my students.
Grace Snodgrass: Making Evaluations Matter Grace Snodgrass 2011
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And he has apologized repeatedly for his 2008 vote in favor of the federal bank bailouts, a pass-fail test for conservative activists.
In Utah, Sen. Hatch courts tea partyers one by one in quest for survival 2011
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