<p>What is a grade inflation I hear about on the forum from time to time.</p>
<p>when grades are higher than they deserve to be. Let's say you go to a tough school and you're an average student there and you get a C in math class. Well let's say someone else goes to an easier school, and because their school isn't as challenging, even though you're both average students they get a B. Grade inflation is what it sounds like the grades being "inflated" above what they should be</p>
<p>An easy way to detect grade inflation:</p>
<p>Since average should be something like a C, C+, or maybe a B-, then the average GPA of a non-inflated system would be somewhere around 2.4-2.8</p>
<p>If you look at a distribution graph, it should have a nice bell curve with the majority of students earning GPAs around what I just mentioend above, and only a few students with GPAs above 3.5 or below 1.7.</p>
<p>In grade inflated schools, you see many more GPAs closer to 3.6, 3.7, etc.</p>
<p>My school is a perfect example: We typically have around 10 ppl who graduate with a perfect GPA each year (out of a class that varies from 400-500), and around half of the student body has a GPA of at least 3.0</p>
<p>An overhyped concept as far as colleges go, but it's a real issue in high school. Like everybody said, when lots of people get high grades.</p>
<p>It depends on classes in my school. I think a lot of classes are fairly giving the grades students should deserve except for math. The math department is crazy! They give out A's for students over 88% and half of the kids in my geometry class had A's!</p>
<p>personally I think we should go back to the days where C was average, B was good, and A was great. An A is losing its value these days</p>
<p>Yeah, and that's an understatement.</p>
<p>As much as I like my grades...sometimes I feel like I don't really deserve them. Like because nothing is really standarized, my A here could be a D there. I find it a little unsettling. :eek:</p>
<p>It's absolutely true what celebrian said...</p>
<p>Some of my classes, even the APs, are completely BS.</p>
<p>I cruised through AP Lang, got a 96% inthe class, and ended up with a 3 on the exam.</p>
<p>Quick question though... is this grade inflation:</p>
<p>In my AP Chem class of 11 students, 4 students got As, and there were more As than any other letter grade.</p>
<p>However, 3 of us who got As also got 5s on he exam (one person got an A but only managed a 3).</p>
<p>Likewise, in my Calc BC class of 63 (both classes combined), about 20 ppl got As every marking period, and maybe 30 ppl got an overall class grade of A.</p>
<p>Again, Half of our entire BC class for double 5s on the BC exam, a quarter of us either got double 4s, a 4/5 or a 5/4, and the rest got something lower (One freaky thing was when one of the students got a 3 on the AB subscore and a 5 on the BC section).</p>
<p>Is that grade inflation? I don't go to a very competitive school, about 50% of us go into a 4 year college after graduation</p>
<p>I think that's called good teachers. Like my bio teacher was so awesome. Even though most of us had A's, he always gets a higher percentage of 4's/5's than any other teacher.</p>
<p>oh whoops, heh heh. Now I feel clumsy</p>
<p>the "avg" grade being a C is only true if you grade on a curve. Otherwise, even without inflation, it is entirely possible for a large percentage of the class to get As.</p>
<p>The best example of inflation is more what college here i come talks about, kids who have amazing GPAs and horrible standardized testing. True, standardized testing can be "unfair" (i must admit, SAT1 is about the only thing this can truly apply to) but yeah the example of a 96% getting a 3 is grade inflation. The rest of what u say college here I come is not inflation. And wow, how do u get a BC/AB where ur AB is lower than your BC?</p>
<p>well...in my school we have mark DEFLATION in many classes, but never mark inflation. </p>
<p>English: class average is like 72. The highest in the class was 81, and the lowest was probably like between 55~65. And my school is ranked #1 in Alberta, one of the top IB schools in the world.</p>
<p>Math: class average 77. Although the highest mark was 100, we had a lot of people with 70s, one girl with 55.</p>
<p>Social: class average was barely over 80s. The highest in the class was 88, and the lowest was barely over 70.</p>
<p>I know some guys that go to a different school. They had lower marks than I did in junior high, but they are getting like 99's in all the subjects. I call that serious mark inflation.</p>