Related Clues:

• Kind of pattern
• Probe
• Word with eye or taste
• Kind of pattern or pilot
• Cause of a class struggle?
• Shakedown
• New driver's hurdle
• See 80-Across
• Academic challenge
• Class act
• Put through the paces
• Take it to make the grade
• Measure of skill
• Final, e.g.
• You need it to make the grade