Making the Grade

If you have months before the exam, you are lucky. Don t put off your study until the week before the exam Start now. Even ten minutes a day, with half an hour or more on weekends, can make a big difference in your score—and in your chances of making the grade you want ... 

Alexander P. Ultrafine titanium dioxide makes the grade. Manuf Chem 1991 62(7) 21, 23. 

For government employees and bureaucrats who have problems with standard recipes, here s one that should make the grade—a classic version of the chocolate-chip cookie translated for easy reading. 

Fortunately, we had not settled solely for the chance of FPL 52757 making the grade as an orally effective agent. 

Carrot Quality Improvements. The lack of definite eating quality standards, and the difficulty of quickly and easily assessing carrot quality makes the grading of culinary quality in carrots as they come from production areas to the consumer unfeasible. This places the burden of quality Improvement on altered production practices, varieties with genetically improved quality over a wide range of environments, or both. 

The second case is more commoa This occrrrs where the student has a good attitude towards flying arrd applies much effort to their training, but carmot make the grade. Alternatively, the student s performance has deteriorated steadily as the flying syllabus became harder. The student may have been taking things easy and then by the time they realized that they needed to improve it was too late. 

P. A. Janeway, Aluminum Nitride Making the Grade in Demanding Electronic Applications, Ceramic Industry, vol. 137, no. 1, July 1991, pp. 2532. 

In sum, academic preparation is from the faculty perspective the key to making the grade in engineering. Those who are well prepared in high school to take on rigorous curriculum in engineering programs at the university will likely be successful all others will fail. 

Salzman, H., Lowell, L. (2008). Making the grade. Nature, 453, 28-30. http //www.nature.com/ nature/joumal/v453/n7191/pdf/453028a.pdf. 

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