<p>Can someone please tell what both grade inflation and grade deflation mean?</p>
<p>Thanks.</p>
<p>It's exactly what it sounds like. Some schools tend to give out higher grades (inflation) than what students deserve. And some schools tend to give out lower grades than what students deserve.</p>
<p>In GA, where kids can have their tuition for free if they have a B average, this helps encourage grade inflation (not that I'm complaining).</p>
<p>But in college, how do they do that? Especially grade deflation?</p>
<p>For example, does grade deflation happen because of competitive grading or because of professor's whims?</p>
<p>Well, for example, I think that to earn a perfect mark in a class (4.0), that if you actually had to know 93%+ of the material is kind of ridiculous. So there's things in there like participation points, extra credit, curves, attendance, etc.</p>
<p>Plus when a professor does things like curb they can control exactly how many people get As, Bs, etc. I've got classes with about 40% As, 30% Bs, 15% Cs and 15% Fs. Those are usually in major classes for smallish majors, where they don't want people to fail since they'll just muddle up the system. I've got other classes with 15% As, 60% B/Cs, etc.</p>
<p>Wake Forest is pretty notorious about grade deflation. I've had several professors that have been obsessed with how the bell curve for the class comes out (with the peak of the curve being a C). An A is considered "exceptionally high achievement."</p>
<p>Although my GPA isn't nearly as high as it would likely be if I went to, say, UNC, I think that I've had to work harder for my grades.</p>
<p>inflation usually means your school has easy classes, or give a lot of As and Bs and very few Cs and Ds. Deflation is the opposite.</p>