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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Most elite private schools have a mandate to set the median grade within a predetermined range. Some schools are very conservative, and set the median grade at a 88-89/B+ Some schools might have it at 90-92/A-. However, there's an expectation that only the best students in a particular section get the top grade of A or A+ What this means in practice is that students are competing against each other. Work that would easily receive an A at a public school instead receives a B+ because it's not the best essay in the section. [/quote] I had a teacher (Catholic HS) explain that if most of the class got As it meant he wasn't challenging them enough, which meant they weren't learning to stretch their minds. Very few get As.[/quote]
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