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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]“ The stronger one part is, the correspondingly weaker the other part is, and vice versa.”

Where did you come up with this? There is no neuroscience basis for this assertion.

While I do believe that both standardized testing and grading have been made easier, there really are some kids who excel. I went to a very competitive private school in the 90s that had loads of homework and very strenuous grading standards. Every year there would be 2-3 kids in a class of 70-75 who would earn 4.0s and score 1600s.[/quote]

I did my undergraduate degree in chemistry and my graduate degree in history. But of course that's impossible, right?

The high school curriculum is completely introductory. While I'd agree with you that there's a lot of grade inflation and that they've dumbed down the SAT, there's no reason that an intelligent person couldn't learn both single variable calculus and history. If they got rid of grade inflation there would still be students with 4.0 GPAs--just not as many of them. [/quote]
What graduate school did you go to that was so desperate for tuition $$$ that they accepted someone without a history background? Or did you double major?[/quote]

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