Not exactly, but sort of. For a couple years in the 1990s, I was a member of a grant-reading / assessment committee in my state. Libraries across the state would put in requests for LSTA money (LSTA being a passthrough device to get federal money to deserving libraries in each state.) There were a half dozen of us on the committee; each year that I served on the committee, we received 60–70 proposals for funding. The dollars that were requested far exceeded the amount that we had to distribute. So there were some similarities to grading papers. Some of the grant proposals were well written, cogent, followed directions, and made a persuasive case. They usually got funded. The equivalent of a 100 score. Some of the proposals were (apparently) dashed off the night before the deadline – weren’t proofread, didn’t hang together, and the numbers (dollars) didn’t add up. These were the failures – never got a cent. And then were the proposals in the middle – some better, some worse, some not worth funding, some needed more work, etc. Just like students and test score.