pass or fail
No partial credit
Pass or fail describes a grading system with only two outcomes—meeting the standard or not—rather than letter grades or percentages.
Students take courses pass or fail to explore subjects without risking their GPA.
The phrase also describes any binary evaluation: The inspection is pass or fail, no middle ground.
- succeedAchieve a desired aim
- testEvaluative examination
- final examConcluding course assessment
- examFormal knowledge assessment
- gradeClassification by rank
midterm exam · threshold · binary · all or nothing · success · sink or swim · do or die · attempt · result · outcome · judgment · verdict · score · borderline · scrape · bare minimum · flunk · ace
- judgment callsjudgment, verdict, ruling, determination, close call
- Building Inspectionbuilding codes, code violations, structural integrity, inspection reports, certification standards
- Either/Oryes or no, true or false, on or off, in or out, up or down
- surveyspoll, polls, survey, surveys, questionnaire
- crossroadscrossroads, fork in the road, fork in road, junction, juncture
- teststest, tests, exam, exams, quiz
grading system granularity
pass or failletter grade
Alphabetic academic score
graded · A through F · curved · ranked · competency-based
pass, fail, passed, passing, passer, passable, impassable, passage, passenger