noun · academic
performance
UK/pəˈfɔː.məns/US/pərˈfɔːr.məns/per·FOR·mance
Band 5-6task2speaking
how well a person, machine, or organization does a task; the act of performing
Examples
“Student performance in maths has improved this year.”
“The company's financial performance was discussed in the report.”
“The actor's live performance received great reviews.”
Band 8 sentence
“Improving teacher training is crucial if we want to raise student performance across the board.”
Collocations
- academic performance
- poor/excellent performance
- improve performance
Word family
perform verbperformer nounperforming adjective / verb-ing
Common mistakes
He performed good in the exam.→He performed well in the exam.
The student has a good performance at the test.→The student performed well in the test.
Say it for a higher band
5ability→6result→7+performance
Synonyms
achievement
result
Easily confused
perform
“She will perform the song live tonight.”
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