A pass mark is the lowest score that counts as a pass. Reach the pass mark, a pass mark of forty.
It is sometimes fixed in advance and sometimes set after the marking, once the paper's difficulty is known. A pass mark set afterwards is what keeps standards steady between years.
1nounpass markThe lowest score that counts as a pass.
“He came in two marks under the pass mark.”
pass mark is a threshold.
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