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[quote=Anonymous]"Back when I was in high school, our math teacher graded in a brutal 7 point scale. 93 was an A-. You didn't get an A+ unless you got above abut a 97. You were already a D student at 70. Grade inflaltion is the single biggest problem in universities today. It is time we go back to demanding excellence. Hardwork is nice, but students need to be taught that that isn't enough. Hardwork also needs to be accurate and precise. If someone works hard but constantly makes mistakes, we shouldn't reward them for it."

Yeah, my HS had that grade scale as well.  But back then they didn't do it because they knew what they were doing.

The point of today's grading is that everyone, across even huge school districts, should learn the same thing/same amount to get an A.

Back in the day my HS had 60 students in the top track for English.  About 30 of us took Chemistry and Calculus as seniors so we all had the same English class.

The other 30 in the top English track took European History and Sociology.  Because we were graded against each other rather than to the same standard, both classes had the same number of As.

If you look at the distributions of our AP English scores, the Calc group got twentyfive 5s and 4s and the Sociology group got five 5s and 4s.

Demanding excellence is hard because very few teachers can teach actual excellent students.[/quote]

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