Categories
Grades and categories are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Grades" instead a noun "Categories".
Grades
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The Stands from JoJo's Bizarre Adventure are given letter grades in several categories such as power, speed, precision, and so on.
Source: Random Power Ranking -
Based on your grades for these categories, you are then given an overall grade for that verse, which ranges from Stone, to Pure Platinum, which you only receive for getting a Platinum in each category.
Source: Video Game / Bayonetta - While in sports such as gymnastics they just show the grades after the performance, in carnival's case a deep-voiced announcer reads aloud every grade the 12 "samba schools" had - 10 categories, each with 4 judges (and like with sports, the lowest one is dropped from the count).
Source: Mundane Made Awesome / Other
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