<p>Not to say I experience no grade inflation but has anyone seen other people get seriously insane amounts of bonus points? Like in French the teacher gives out a 150 point bonus test, so it's basically impossible for anyone who takes french NOT to get a 100. Really kills my class rank, man.</p>
<p>I think grade inflation is a systematic thing that happens pretty much everywhere (well, not everywhere, but it’s more pervasive than it seems). It’s not really about extra credit points as much as it is about classes being way easier than they should and people getting As on assignments where they would have gotten a B a couple decades ago. I’ve “benefited” a lot from grade inflation. </p>
<p>Grade inflation at my school is extra credit and lots of weighted classes. Like, the highest gpa a freshman can get with taking all honors courses (science, math, english, foreign language) is like a 4.5 or 4.6. My history teacher offers a lot of extra credit though. Last year it boosted some people 6% which is ridiculous in my opinion.</p>
<p>Yes, grade inflation is very prevalent at my school. I also hate how a 90%=100%=A at my school; no differentiation between the top or bottom ends of an A.
To an extent, it’s nice because it means I have to do less work/studying to keep my grades, but it also makes me mad that people who don’t deserve to get an A in a certain class do because they have “bonus points” to help them. </p>
<p>In a system without grade inflation, a 90% wouldn’t be a whole lot different from 100%. They would both indicate excellent work. The main problem now is that everything is too easy (or that 90-100% grades are too easy to get), not that we’re not differentiating enough between people. If the work became more difficult, the differentiation would happen on its own.</p>
<p>Weighted GPA is really arbitrary too…it’s important to remember that a 4.5 GPA (or whatever) isn’t even supposed to mean “better than perfect” or anything. It’s just on a different scale, like pounds vs. kilograms or something. Putting GPA on a 5.0 scale rather than a 4.0 scale isn’t grade inflation in itself.</p>
<p>We’ve taken 4 tests in my AP Gov class, and one student has gotten 37.5% - 64% on the tests (and tests are weighted as 50% of our grade), but she still has a B+ in the class because the teacher lets her do so many extra credit assignments. </p>
<p>I find it especially annoying because he refused to let me do any extra credit to get my B+ to an A- because he “didn’t want grade inflation to be too rampant”</p>
<p>No, I haven’t found that to be the case in any of my classes. And we have no honors so our gpas aren’t inflated either. </p>
<p>Last year I managed anywhere from a 105 to a 120 in Latin all year, LOL. My quiz average was something like 140% – all of my teacher’s quizzes had TONS of extra credit, so a small 5 question multiple choice quiz had 4 additional extra credit questions so you could get an upwards of a 180 on an assignment. People still failed the class, though. </p>
<p>Even though I have an A- in AP Gov (only class w/o inflation), my UW GPA is still 97.66. That’s how inflated the grades are at my school.</p>
<p>My school have a policy against extra credit. Its either you pass or fail no way around it. I wish I could experience the grade inflation like everyone else tho. I can say the lowest GPA out of our 212 student is a 3.4 something.</p>
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It sounds like you do. </p>
<p>Bonus points have inflated my AP lit grade by 11 points… (I should have a 89, and not a 100) I had such a high grade in AP lit, I could get a zero on the last essay and still have an A. I got a 40/100 (finished way early in order to study for my AP physics test), and still kept a 100 average. Even with all these bonus points, the class average is a 76% (with all the bonus points); I suppose this is why she keeps giving us bonus point opportunities!</p>
<p>My school has extreme grade deflation: 5% get 90+ in classes and our valedictorian has almost always had a
3.85 UW GPA</p>