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Bookmark or Share- What is the difference between "Class of 2004" and "Batch of 2004"?batch (OALD): a number of people or things that are dealt with as a group. A quick search on google and bing shows that "batch" (to refer to a group of students) is most commonly used on the Indian subcontinent, and in parts of Africa.
- Term for a person with absolutely zero knowledge of a topicIf this is any help, teaching English as a foreign language is usually divided in the following levels: 1) Beginner 2) Elementary (this implies that the learner knows numbers, letters, colours, and the subject pronouns) 3) pre-intermediate 4) Intermediate 5) upper-intermediate 6) Advanced.
- What to call Primary School + High School, but not CollegeThe answers and comments to this question have already demonstrated that it varies across the country. I would have answered that the terms "Primary School" and "Grade School" both refer to elementary, middle, and high school collectively.
- word choice - Which grade/class are you? - English Language & Usage ...and the answer would either be a number grade First grade through Twelfth grade, or a high school student might answer with freshman, sophomore, junior, or senior (when I went to school 40 years ago, grades 7-9 were often junior high school, so freshmen didn't usually identify themselves that way).
- "Freshman", "sophomore", what next? - English Language & Usage Stack ...I know first and second year undergraduate students are freshmen and sophomores respectively. Are there similar terms for third and fourth years, given most programmes are three or four year programmes? If no, is there any reason for coining a word only for the second year (i.e., sophomore)?
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