report card
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- noun
- /rɪˈpɔrt kɑrd/
- US
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boletín de calificaciones
- The next report cards are about to come out.
- report card grades
- report cards for students
- take report card home
It's like when you got a bad report card and your dad hasn't come home from work yet.
- It's like when you got a bad report card and your dad hasn't come home from work yet.
- Well, if I think about myself as a child, the report card always said she's in her head too much.
- So I have report cards that say, chooses to disturb others, you know, doesn't stay on task.
- And the teacher is who holds the keys to what's on your report card that your parents are going to judge you by is saying, well, you're misbehaving for interrupting us.
- It's not all this is not a like a pass fail report card or menu of options.
- Or an A + a highly praising report card.
- Your bankers wants to see a financial, not your GPA, not your report card, you know, not your college degree.
Examples
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Teachers usually discuss students' progress during report card conferences with parents.
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Just got his report card.
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- We got our report cards today.
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Did you get your report card?
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His report card was full of unsatisfactorys.
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Students receive their daily behavior report card at the time of check-in and discuss their daily goals.
Academic text (2013) -
In the context of a family-school partnership, daily report cards were developed and implemented by parents and teachers.
Academic text (2012) -
Teachers write inspired, detailed descriptions of the students in report card narratives.
Academic text (2005) -
I was happy to see that I received an A on my report card this semester.
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After reviewing her report card, she realized she needed to study harder.
How Official
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'an official school document showing grades' is directly derivable from combining 'report' (an informational account) with 'card' (a small document or form) — literally a card that reports. This straightforward noun–noun composition is common cross-linguistically and follows normal English compounding patterns, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will very likely infer the meaning.
Etymology
The noun report card comes from a simple school practice: teachers wrote a short report on a small card and sent it home so parents could see a student's 'grades' and 'progress'. So today the phrase means the official paper that shows how well a student is doing.