<p>How much grade inflation is there at your school? </p>
<p>I'd love to hear from more people about this, because I'm pretty sure at least half the reason B's have become so unacceptable to me is because my teachers just don't give out C's anymore except to like... the bottom 2 students. So a B is basically the lowest grade you can get.</p>
<p>There is very little grade inflation at my school, at least in the more difficult classes. Plenty of students get B's and C's, and getting an A can be quite challenging, as I am sure it is in many schools. Your teachers need to give more objective assessments if they can't grade essays without inflating their grades.</p>
<p>honors classes are multiplied by 1.03 and AP by 1.06</p>
<p>It's not too bad here, especially since they lowered the weights from 1.00 for honors/AP to 0.5 for AP and 0.3 for honors (out of 4.0). At that rate, anything at 4.0 or above puts you in the top ten percent (and we do rank, so that means the top 45 students), which seems reasonable to me.</p>
<p>Well the unweighted median GPA is something like 3.5 here, if that says anything.</p>
<p>hahaha except in my Spanish class, grade inflation is virtually non-existent in my school. </p>
<p>However some teachers do give an extra 2-3 points on GPA (out of a 100) if you have improved over a set range of time. </p>
<p>Otherwise, your quarter grade is almost the flat out average of all of your work. Semester grade may be slightly inflated (for improvement reasons) if you're inbetween like ex: a B+ and A-. It is very likely you will recieve the A- unless your grades are on a downward trend. </p>
<p>Oh my Span class inflation is like:
I deserved a D, 2nd semester of 9th grade because I slept through all of my classes and did not learn. I recieved a B+ hahahaha as a final grade. 1st semester I got an A/A- lol. HUGE BENEFIT OF DOUBT. hahahaha. </p>
<p>This year, I got an A for the semester. I was currently going up starting with like a B/B+ to an A+. Yup!</p>
<p>We have a lot of grade inflation. Median weighted GPA is probably around 3.5, maybe a little lower. Hard to get lower than a B unless you really don't try, except for a few teachers whose classes are especially hard.</p>
<p>Teachers seem to give out A's like candy here, even in AP courses. A little less than half of my class is on the distinguished honor roll at my school. It's ridiculous because there's no distinction between the kids that procrastinate and then scramble to move those B's to low A's, and those that really work hard all the time. I'm constantly working and achieving the same grades as my friends who leave everything off to the last minute, although numerically my A's are higher. But an A is an A, so in the end it doesn't even matter. </p>
<p>Well, I'm hoping that my teacher recs will demonstrate my work ethic to the colleges...I feel cheated by my peers as a student who takes her work seriously. :-(</p>
<p>My school has rampant grade inflation. Over half of my class has a 3.33 or higher. That's the honor roll cutoff, so they publish the list of names, and 50% of my class is on it. Usually the top 7-8% of the class has an unweighted 4.0 for a given marking period. My class has 57 students, so the numbers may be a little skewed, but that's how it works.</p>
<p>A lot. Either you're making an A or a B, or you're completing failing because you never turn in any of the work. </p>
<p>Every little difference in grades is magnified, though. There's probably about a .5 GPA difference between number 1 and number 60. o.0</p>
<p>there is grade inflation in my school if you are in second track, for most teachers anyway. I don't see the same for honors and AP classes</p>
<p>A's are too easy to acquire at my school and teachers are quite lenient "if you want an A" for most classes, not all.</p>
<p>I live in Canada, where grade inflation is supposedly not that prevalent. 50% is a pass here, and 49% of grade 12 students have an average above 75%. However, I had a 98.2 average last year, so if you put in ANY effort you can get good marks.</p>
<p>Our 'Academic Letter' is for 3.7+ GPA (Honours don't get additional weight while AP/IB get 0.5), and I think last year around 170 of 1200 eligible kids got the award. </p>
<p>That being said, there is a lot of "hidden" grade inflation. The tests are hard, but lots of teachers offer extra credit, little mini-quizzes of like half a page worth of content (easy cramming grades), completion grades/fluff assignments, etc. so that as long as you try, it is very possible to get a good grade. But it's a public school, so many people don't try, and thus not a very high percentage of kids get As...But if one tried, it is definitely possible to get a good amount of As.</p>
<p>My school's grading system is 93-100 A, 85-92 B, ... 69 and below F. So I think teachers feel more obligated to eek in a few points to raise that B to an A or C to a B than do teachers on the below 50 fail scale. </p>
<p>However, there are plenty of kids not doing well, plenty with C's, and probably most with one C, B's, and a few A's. It's not too bad, but I still feel annoyed by the fact that so many people get about an 85 when their work is really like 70-75. Plus GPA's weighted.</p>
<p>Not much grade inflation here. If you work hard you can get A's, but usually if you get an A you REALLY earned it.</p>
<p>A "B" average is common around here, for the average kid that DOES HER WORK (very different from just "the average kid"...)</p>
<p>A 3.65 gives you a good shot at cornell/tufts, and the average brown/columbia kid needs no more than a 3.7/8. (this is average... obviously without the right qualities a 4.0 can't make cornell)</p>
<p>It's freshman year and over 20% of our class has an unweighted 4.0. And I know it's just the first year, but it hasn't changed much for the sophomores and juniors.</p>
<p>But that's why not getting a single B is important... cuz if I do.. I fall out of the top 20%...</p>