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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's crazy to me how many kids there are on here with unweighted 4.0s.  I feel like even last year it was rare.   This year  10 replies out of 15 each time the results from another school come up are ALL unweighted 4.0s. 
Many are MCPS--it makes sense with their wacky grading scale:  you can get 69.5 (C) quarter 1, 79.5 (B) quarter 2, 79.5 (quarter 3) and 89.5 (quarter 4) and end up with an A or 4.0 for the year for the class. 
THAT IS INSANE.  Many districts are similar.  You are a hair what is traditionally failing for a solid quarter (a 69.5) and you still get an A for the year. 
And they don't have A minus grades.  So an A is a 4.0

Plus retakes (in many classes), no penalty for late work, etc.

Does anyone who does the work, not end up with a 4.0? It really seems like you have to try to do poorly.

Has a 4.0 ceased (even unweighted) ceased to mean ANYTHING?  It seems like this is really hurting the kids who are actually super smart.  They are lost in the shuffle of so many kids getting "perfect" grades
for doing very average work.

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Huh? You can't believe the stats parents post on the Internet:

Maybe they don't understand how weighted and unweighted differ (seriously, this happens).
Some are reporting semester and annual GPA, not cumulative.
Many school districts award A-pluses that provide a post-4.0 bump to unweighted, yes unweighted, GPAs.
Some are reporting the GPAs colleges recalculate, such as Stanford's 10th and 11th only, no plus or minus.
Maybe they're simply lying.

The best study out there says that grade inflation crept up for a couple of decades until the pandemic, then a period of grade deflation began.

WE LIVE IN A TIME OF GRADE DEFLATION.

[b]There are a lot of forum posters out there who seem to be mentally ill, and the core of their mental illness is that it's easy to get As in large, highly competitive public high schools with robust AP or IB programs. And that's totally false.[/b]

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Yep. In fact grade inflation was 3 times higher in private schools.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2017/07/17/easy-a-nearly-half-hs-seniors-graduate-average/485787001/

[quote]Actually, they said, the upward creep is most pronounced in schools with large numbers of white, wealthy students. And its especially noticeable in private schools, where the rate of inflation was about three times higher than in public schools.[/quote]
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That article is from 2017, which is completely irrelevant to the post-Covid public school grading systems. [/quote]

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