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by greatzebu 2751 days ago
Grades are also fraught with bias, and in a lot of cases measure compliance more than mastery of the material.
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sys_64738 2751 days ago
This. I thought everybody for sure in the USA got A grades for everything. If you were not then you get extra credit to let you get the A Grade.

In England, A Levels have gotten to the point where each year more people get an A for a subject than the previous year. This is analogous to the Soviet harvests beating each preceding years. Not they have A* grades or some such derivative to say that it's a "real" A grade.

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yhoneycomb 2743 days ago
> everybody for sure in the USA got A grades for everything. If you were not then you get extra credit to let you get the A Grade.

that's incredibly inaccurate and naive

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johnday 2750 days ago
It's actually been fairly stable for almost a decade - there's a good graph for the UK on the 'grade inflation' Wikipedia article.
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