But I was a nerd when it wasn’t a buzzword yet. I played tournament chess from fifth grade up into high school.

在书呆子这词儿被发明前我就是个书呆子了，哥们儿从五年级开始就参加国际象棋锦标赛，一直玩到高中。

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The devastated Chinese mother would then get dozens, maybe hundreds of practice tests and work through them with her child for as long as it takes to get the grade up to an a.

遭受打击的中国母亲会找来几打，也许数以百计的测试练习，然后会和孩子一起一直练到得到A才会罢休。

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She drove up a steep grade and then began the long descent into the desert.

她驾车爬上一个陡坡，然后开始长长的下坡进入沙漠。

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"What I have seen is a lot of kids really take off because they do have the one-on-one attention and they are up to grade level, if not beyond,as a result of having been in the program."

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So when you're pissed off about your grade, the person to take it up with... well, take it up with them.

所以如果你因为你的分数想要发脾气，你要找的人。,恩，你要找的人是他们。

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When I was growing up, I went to Catholic school first through eighth grade.

我成长的时候，我上天主教学校一直到八年级，

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Across all subjects, those where students performed exceptionally well included chemistry (up two percentage points to 34% gaining grade A), French (up three percentage points to 34% at grade A), German (up one percentage points to 34% at grade A) and economics (up 6 percentage points to 33% at grade A).

BBC: Rise in top grade A-level exams

They will say that between January and June 2012 it was decided that too many students were going to get a C grade or better in GCSE English, so a decision was taken to push up grade boundaries for the exams marked in June to bring down the numbers of good grades for the year as a whole.

BBC: GCSE English grades 'statistical fix', High Court told

Do 3rd grade teachers stay up at night reading up on the latest patent jurisprudence?

FORBES: People Should Listen to Computer Programmers about Software Patents