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Grade Inflation

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Grade inflation is a documented rise over time in grades assigned for a given level of achievement, so an A today can signal C-level work.

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Multiple universities report the most common grade shifting upward across decades, even as coursework did not become easier to verify.

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Grade inflation describes a trend in the grade-to-achievement relationship, not a claim about any one student's grade.

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