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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Anecdotal evidence only. [/quote]

Aaannnddd... this is the moment the post becomes valueless. [/quote]

Reading is fundamental. The very next sentence in my PP points out that [i]all of higher education understands that grade inflation in college is real,[/i] persistent and widespread.  I know that you cannot read long things.  For others though, here's some data in context:

"The data are definitive: [color=dark red][b] it’s never been easier to get an A at Princeton.[/b][/color]   A- was the median grade [b]in the 2018-2019 academic year. 55 percent of course grades were in the A-range. In 1998, they were 43 percent of course grades[/b], according to a faculty report I acquired from Mudd Manuscript Library.  B-range grades comprised 34 percent, and the C-range comprised six percent. D’s were merely half a percent. A Princetonian’s chance of getting a F was one in a thousand. The remaining four percent went to “passes.” 
 https://www.dailyprincetonian.com/article/2020/01/the-decline-and-fall-of-grade-deflation

[b]A’s represent 43% of all letter grades, [color=red]an increase of 28 percentage points since 1960 and
12 percentage points since 1988.[/color][/b] D’s and F’s total typically less than 10% of all letter
grades. Private colleges and universities give, on average, significantly more A’s and B’s
combined than public institutions with equal student selectivity. Southern schools grade
more harshly than those in other regions, and science and engineering-focused schools
grade more stringently than those emphasizing the liberal arts.

At schools with modest selectivity, grading is as generous as it was in the mid-1980s at highly selective schools.
These prestigious schools have, in turn, continued to ramp up their grades. [b]It is likely that
at many selective and highly selective schools, undergraduate GPAs are now so saturated
at the high end that they have little use as a motivator of students and as an evaluation tool
for graduate and professional schools and employers.[/b]
-- [i]Stuart Rojstaczer and Christopher Healy’s comprehensive 2012 report, “Where A Is
Ordinary: The Evolution of American College and University Grading, 1940–2009.”[/i]

[color=blue][b]There has been a dramatic increase in average grades at colleges and universities in the United States over the past 50 years.[/b] [/color]
-- [i]-Lehr, Brandon. "Information and Inflation: An Analysis of Grading Behavior" The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, vol. 16, no. 2, 2016, pp. 755-783. https://doi.org/10.1515/bejeap-2015-0138
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