A grade is a level or score that shows how well someone did, especially in school. To grade means to judge or mark work according to a scale.
“Grade” comes from French “grade” and Latin “gradus,” meaning step or degree. The idea is that each grade is like a step on a ladder of progress or quality.
Grades feel absolute, but they’re really just labels on a scale that humans designed. The same work might get different grades in different systems, which shows how much grading depends on the rules we choose.
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