At the end of it the apprentice becomes a full workman, and a member of his trade or guild.

Now not only are the individual records of the apprentices for ability and industry strictly kept, and excellence distinguished by suitable distinctions, but upon the average of his record during apprenticeship the standing given the apprentice among the full workmen depends.
"While the internal organizations of different industries, mechanical and agricultural, differ according to their peculiar conditions, they agree in a general division of their workers into first, second, and third grades, according to ability, and these grades are in many cases subdivided into first and second classes.

According to his standing as an apprentice a young man is assigned his place as a first, second, or third grade worker.

Of course only men of unusual ability pass directly from apprenticeship into the first grade of the workers.

The most fall into the lower grades, working up as they grow more experienced, at the periodical regradings.