On academic performance measures and job application forms

Now that it’s almost graduation time and job-hunting time for new college graduates, I’d like to take up three very timely grammar questions raised in Jose Carillo’s English Forum recently about academic performance and job application and testing forms.

The first question is from Michelle V. who posted this question in the Forum’s Facebook gateway: “Here in my new school, they keep on saying ‘with highest honors.’ Is this correct? I believe this must be ‘with the highest honors.’”