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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Superscoring AND repeat administrations ("score hunting"?) of the SAT or ACT should be struck down as permissible unless colleges and universities are also prepared to allow applicants to ameliorate any grade on their transcript that they wish to improve upon. Grade inflation is already a Pandora's box, why not align it with this superscoring and repeat testing monster that so many succumb to?[/quote]

“Kids should not be allowed to retake tests to prove they have now mastered the material” gives the real game away.

Actual learning is a scam, got it. What’s important is never ever making any mistake and if you do you can never correct it.[/quote]

Most selective colleges won’t give a grade worse than a B. The grade inflation is awful. My spouse teaches as an adjunct once a year and the grading instructions  were shocking. 
Majority A or A-, 
then a large # of B+. 
A few Bs and 1-2 B-. 
Very rare C.
For a class of 30 kids.
T10 private[/quote]

Not all elite colleges.  My alma mater/T10 school is not that way.  Plenty of parents posting on the Parent FB pages about their kids struggling in the freshman chem sequence and Orgo soph year, and the freshman engineering sequence is quite brutal as well--these are some of the brightest kids working their asses off and struggling to get a C/C+.   So perhaps a general LA education is easy to get A's and a few Bs, but for rigorous stem degrees it is brutal and their is no grad inflation[/quote]

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