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Social Sciences - Education / Pedagogy | | English term or phrase: C student | "Tugg Speedman struggled as a middling ""C"" level Student at Miami Southridge High School."
What is "C level". Does it mean he always has the mark C at exams ? Or is it a level at school, before A levels. It's in the American school context. |
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Sylvia Rochonnat
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14 mins confidence:   | C-level student very average
Explanation:
I don't think it would be an exam level at school, since AFAIK A-levels and O-levels are only used in the UK, not the US.
In view of the fact that it says 'middling', I would assume it means a very 'average', almost mediocre, student, who gets a C-grade all the time — since A is a top grade, and E is a scraped pass.
Do note, however, that in the UK at least, we used to have a system of 'streaming' (now deprecated) where at the start of secondary schooling, kids would be pre-selected according to their perceived abilities, in a way that would affect the rest of their secondary education. So the A-stream was for the brightest kids, and the D-stream was for the real dunces.
I don't know if such a system ever existed in the US, and if it did, whether it was referred to as '...-level'.
But either way, I think the meaning is the same: a very average student, perhaps even fairly mediocre.
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Note added at 16 mins (2008-08-08 08:30:29 GMT)
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Sorry, I was just seeking to explain the term for you in EN; Sylvia has of course given you the French term you asked for!
|  Tony M
France
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