How hard is it to have a 3.5

Colleges & Universities University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
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<p>This might have been the original article written about grade inflation, written in 2005. I think this is one reason some people also wanted to institute the “Achievement Index,” to encourage students to <em>not</em> avoid the courses that are often graded harder, or those courses that are known to be difficult.</p>

<p>Again, all universities have seen grade inflation over the decades, and I think this Turchi Report studied grades from 1969 to 1999 (I think), which did show some inflation. Since that report, I gather there’s been some awareness of the issue; consequently, as stated before, I suspect there’s been some level of grade deflation going on–perhaps in some depts more than others(?) I thought the Achievement Index was a great idea, from what I read about it, but it got voted down.
<a href=“http://media.www.dailytarheel.com/media/storage/paper885/news/2005/02/18/University/Inflated.Grades.Still.Perturb.Officials-1363389.shtml[/url]”>http://media.www.dailytarheel.com/media/storage/paper885/news/2005/02/18/University/Inflated.Grades.Still.Perturb.Officials-1363389.shtml&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>And, for more fun reading, here’s yet another opinion or “Viewpoint” piece, written in 2001 for the DTH, entitled “Fuzzy Math? The Myth of Grade Inflation Exposed.”
<a href=“http://media.www.dailytarheel.com/media/storage/paper885/news/2001/12/03/Viewpoints/Fuzzy.Math.The.Myth.Of.Grade.Inflation.Exposed-1346166.shtml[/url]”>http://media.www.dailytarheel.com/media/storage/paper885/news/2001/12/03/Viewpoints/Fuzzy.Math.The.Myth.Of.Grade.Inflation.Exposed-1346166.shtml&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;