Standard Grade

noun

1. (in Scotland) a type of examination designed to test skills and the application of knowledge, replaced O grade

Example Sentences

The government is consulting on making E10 - which contains less carbon and more ethanol than fuels currently on sale - the new standard grade.

From BBC

Pok passed his Standard Grade in maths at the age of nine and his Higher a year later.

From BBC

"With N4 and N5 in a single class is a complete destruction of the subject. Duplication and stupid nonsensical splitting of outcomes. If the N4 and N5 were in the same class over two years then all pupils in class would achieve the exam as pupils did in standard grade".

From BBC

As part of the complex investigation that followed detectives showed the typed letters to Jacqueline Cahill, who taught Margaret standard grade English at Port Glasgow High between 1994 and 1996.

From BBC

The E.P.A. average mileage on specified standard grade fuel is 19 miles a gallon.

From New York Times