<p>sorry for being an idiot, but what exactly is grade inflation and deflation? i can't really find an explanation anywhere. and which one does mcgill have?</p>
<p>I'm not sure what McGill has since I don't attend there.
But I'll try to differentiate the two for you.</p>
<p>Grade inflation is when teachers throw marks to students; simply hand them out like candy. Everyone in the class is either carrying an A or B with them.</p>
<p>Grade Deflation is when you have strict teachers, who enjoy failing students, and do their best to knock anyone down who dares to get an A.</p>
<p>A lot universities take care of this by using a standard curve. They make it so that a few students do really well, a few fail, and everyone else gets an okay grade. Right now McGill is trying to make it so that the average grade is a B- in every class, right now I believe its sitting at a straight B.</p>
<p>i find that iits quite hard to get A's in mcgill but not impossible. Some of my classes hardly bell curve grades up if the class average is low, however I don't htink this applies to every class and depends on the instructor of the course really. They're also trying to enforce an A+ grade into the grading scheme but this has come under a lot of criticism from students, who find getting A's just as hard anyways, so adding an additional letter grade for a 4.0 would cause gpa's to go even lower i guess.</p>