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report card

/rɪˈpɔrt kɑrd/
/rɪˈpɔt kɑd/
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Other forms: report cards

If you’re a student, you’ve probably gotten a report card with your grades in it. Hope you got all A’s. Anything that gets reviewed, even a school itself, can get a report card.

A preschool report card might include notes like "Great at sharing!" A report card is the lowdown on a student’s performance at school. As students advance through school, their report cards get more complicated. A report card includes number or letter grades for different subjects, and sometimes other information about a student’s progress. In the U.K., this evaluation is more commonly called a report. The first use of report card was around 1920.

Definitions of report card
  1. noun
    a written evaluation of a student's scholarship and deportment
    synonyms: report
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    type of:
    info, information
    a message received and understood
Pronunciation
US
/rɪˈpɔrt kɑrd/
UK
/rɪˈpɔt kɑd/
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