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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Anybody who does A work needs to get an A on their transcript. Doing otherwise means the grades are meaningless.

What grades others get has nothing to do with my grade. [/quote]

Most people do not produce true A work. The average grade should be a 3.0. Only those very much above average should get a 4.0. Grade inflation is bad for everyone [/quote]

What's your evidence for this? Why should an average grade be a 3.0. Clearly your education didn't teach you to make arguments coherently.[/quote]

Because a B grade is historically defined as "above average" and "good" work.  90% of students can't be above average in the real world.[/quote]

Your education didn't teach you the difference between an opinion or a fact either.   Grades can be normative (where students receive grades relative to the performance of their fellow students) or fixed (attainment of some pre-determined learning standards.)

Both grading options have their strengths and weaknesses. Grading on a curve at Harvard is rough.  Brown writes that 47% of its students were valedictorian or salutatorian of their HS class.  It's probably well above that at Harvard.[/quote]

+1 I hate to burst your bubble, but 90% of students at Harvard are academically "above average."  If they've shown mastery of learning standards for the course, there doesn't need to be an artificial curve such that only 20% of them can get As.  They shouldn't be penalized just because they're with a much smarter cohort than the average university.

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Except that the reality is that the cohort is comprised of connected students and those that fill in the DEI gaps who are taking a “dumbed down” curriculum taught by professors who fear getting a bad review on rate my professor.  [/quote]

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