<p>The second statement has nothing to do with what we're talking about, unless you want to provide a table of correlated exam scores and averages for the class.</p>
<p>The first...of course there was grade inflation. You had a 98 in class, and a 3 on the exam. Other kids got a grade higher than 3 on the exam, and unless they were all 99's/100's, and the yearly grade range for your class was 96 for the bottom to 100 for the top, there was grade inflation.</p>