Possible Clues:

• Go by, chronologically
• Pass first of exams, then blunder
• Intake ultimately failing to pass
• English failing to pass
• Turns up, clairvoyance, for example, is linked to drink - and that's progress?
• Slip by, like time
• Please (anag) — pass away
• Pass with low exam grade -- fall from high standard?
• Go anaemic, tablets individually knocked back
• Pass close to Awatere Fault