单词 | school certificate |
释义 | > as lemmasSchool Certificate School Certificate n. (also with lower-case initials) a certificate issued by a school to a pupil; esp. (in any of various public examination systems), a certificate of proficiency in subjects learned at school.In the United Kingdom, the School Certificate was instituted as a public examination system in 1918 and replaced in 1951 by the General Certificate of Education (Ordinary level); cf. Higher School Certificate n. at higher adj., adv., and n.1 Compounds 1b. ΘΚΠ society > education > educational administration > examination > [noun] > school examinations > certificates passing certificate1787 School Certificate1835 leaving certificate1871 School Cert1926 advanced level1947 matric1947 ordinary level1947 scholarship level1947 O level1949 S level1951 ordinary grade1959 Certificate of Secondary Education1961 O grade1962 GCSE1978 1835 N. Amer. Rev. Apr. 519 A school certificate, and one of good conduct. 1888 R. Kipling Wee Willie Winkie 75 They were an educated regiment, the percentage of school-certificates in their ranks were high. 1931 ‘G. Trevor’ Murder at School ii. 36 He was in my junior form... I expect he'd have taken his School Certificate. 1966 G. W. Turner Eng. Lang. in Austral. & N.Z. viii. 173 He [sc. a New Zealander] is likely to sit School Certificate (approximately equivalent to English GCE Ordinary Level). 1997 A. Sivanandan When Memory Dies i. i. 10 Besides, everyone looked up to Sahadevan, his brothers-in-law too, for had not Sahadevan passed his School Certificate? < as lemmas |
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