Rating Photos 1-5

Hi there,
I use the rating feature of iPhoto all the time to help cull the rubbish and keep the good stuff, while using the 5 star stuff in print projects and slide shows etc.
Is there anyway to do this in Photos, without clicking on the info button and then adding a manual Keyword of X Star? this makes it into a massively long boring process, in iPhoto all i needed to do was hit cmd+1-5.
Thanks!!!

Winston,
Thanks for you speedy response, I like to work with software rather than moan about it, I'm happy that the star ratings are now in the keywords, there are a few benefits. One of them is that I understand this will now be embedded in the exif info on the photo file, I don't think that was the case in iPhoto, (I could be wrong!) My winge is that to add these I don't have the shortcut key to do it in an instant... Well things move on and I do believe that apple would have done their research, so I'm now thinking that maybe this was not the best way to sort and manage my snaps anyway... So I now have 2 follow on questions...
Is there a how to guide on how best to work with the Photos app specifically looking at sorting, organising and cataloging of my snaps in Photos? (Apple help, forums or you tube etc??
Are we able to 'create' shortcut keys that will assign some of my most popular keywords to a photo or group of photos?
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