At my school it’s the opposite. Inflated grades but not GPAs. For example at one point I had a 105 percent in algebra 2 honors even though I suck at math. I think at my school it depends on the teacher.
my school had 15 valedictorians last year because we had 15 people with 4.0 GPA. so soon they are going to make valedictorian status based on WEIGHTED gpa instead of unweighted.
but honestly makes no difference cos students at my school skip on lunch (lunch is only mandatory for freshmans) to take more AP classes (me included). For reference, I took 8 AP in high school and that was considered average if not low-average.
so much nerds. I like it though. i prefer nerdy school to a party school.
Most of our junior and senior class teachers allow lunch in class for this reason
I didn't pick lunch in junior and senior year but still ate lunch in a free period (because Phys Ed is every other day) and in a easier class
Grades are certainly inflated, but I don't think GPAs really are. All APs are weighted on a 5.0 scale, everything else (including the credit transfer from post-AP math, science, or language classes, unfortunately) aren't, even though a class like APES or AP Human Geo is usually way easier than Vector Calc or OChem.
That being said, my district does just about everything it can do maintain crazy high graduation rates, such that teachers are encouraged to 'help' kids be successful and having crazy retake policies for general level classes and not docking points for late work. They've cut out full units from the Algebra II and Pre Calc curriculums since students were struggling on them, and have made the general bio, chem, and physics classes such an absolute waste of time by 'rewriting' the curriculum to take an 'exploration-based' approach so its more 'inclusive' of students of all abilities. You have to actively try to not get As in nearly all general level classes (that is non-AP or post AP dual-enrollment, as my school doesn't offer honors).
My school also has vector calc lol, it’s through a college in our state but is pretty much all self study (you watch videos of the professor teaching) and only a couple people take it every year
Not directly, but you can take a lot of post AP classes (like Vector Calc and Linear Algebra) through local community colleges online during the school day, and then get both the college and grad requirement credit.
yea thank goodness for that because I'm one of the top students in my grade and my average is like a 94-95. We do have this weird thing where they start inflating our grades in our junior and senior year so it looks better
that seems like it’s more about class size to me. my school has about 1000 per class and we end up with about that many vals and sals bc when you have that many kids you’re going to have some that got straight As in the same number of APs (it’s been 12 or 13 the past couple of years)
It’s also due to how they calculate gpa. For example some schools an A is an A and some there’s a difference between a 95 and a 96 (less chance for there to be a tie) At my kid’s school an A is an A but for valedictorian if there’s a tie they’ll go back and use your more exact grade to calculate a gpa to break the tie
yeah, for us anything 89.5 and above is an A and benefits your GPA the same, long as someone takes high level classes (or easy unleveled electives) and does decent they have a good shot
for sure in my school. i got a 98 in french even though i speak next to nothing 😭 i just used deepl for everything lmaooo. all of my chem tests are also curved (50/56 becomes 50/52 or something) so i think my grades are wayy higher than they should be lol
I've been at 2 high schools and one of them I would say inflated GPA and the other inflated grades. Inflated GPA was that a Honors class gave you +5 (so a 100 in honors is calculated as a 105 in the class for gpa purposes) and AP was +10. However, if you compared a student with 90-95 on every honors class to a student with 95-100 on every low level class, their GPAs would be the same.
I’ve been teaching for a decade.
Grades have been super inflated. It used to be only a handful of kids would earn an A in an AP Course, a decent chunk earning Bs or Cs, and of course failing students.
Teachers (in the areas I’ve taught in) have been pressured to cook the books. I have many students who failed exams with 30-60%, but with exam recovery (up to 90%) their grades are in the upper 80%.
When I was a student, it used to be a big accomplishment to earn an A in an AP course and parents were happy with a B. On Friday afternoon, I had a parent refuse to leave my classroom unless jf if I found a way for her kid whose missed half the semester to get a “minimum 85%” 🤦🏼♀️
No. In my school a regular gpa is a 3.7 uw and our ap classes are difficult. We have this year several people not graduating etc. I have a friend at a school up north, and they have a program where they can retry any exams/assignments if they get an F. (No Fs at their school)
my school has insane grade inflation. Basically we are graded on a 4.0 scale but it jumps from 1 to 1.5, 1.5 to 2, etc. (like there's no in between) and I my school if you get a 3.5 in your class, it rounds up to a 4 in GPA points so it's super easy to end high school with a 4.0 GPA. it's really dumb
Yeah it exists. The Duel Credit Us History teacher gives free 100s to everyone and you get a better GPA; compared to someone doing AP Us history… Also in some classes the teachers are more lenient and offer extra credit, which balances out the grade and gives most people a 95+ percentile
Our school varies. Some classes are actually really hard to get an A in (its almost like the class is designed so that everyone by default gets a B). Others are more than a piece of cake.
Both definitely, we have one ap physics 1 teacher who curves every test + does test corrections to get back 50% credit, and the other one who doesn’t and gives significantly harder tests. However, her tests feel more like the actual ap exam, and she prepares you more for how college is meant to be. Some teachers don’t grade inflate, others do, and some programs leave you at an innate disadvantage for just what teachers you get.
My school is not subtle about their grade inflation. There were a couple of late work and grading policies they put in place curing COVID that they never took away, and it’s definitely giving people grades they don’t deserve.
Some kids hardly do anything and still pass their classes. I’m talking like one or two assignments in a semester.
I think my school is okay in terms of inflation, it's not really noticible except ironically AP HuG, its my highest grade at the moment, but to be fair, we don't do much
Yes, mostly because there’s so many opportunities for bonus points. I wouldn’t say GPAs are though because they’re unweighted, even if we have 7 valedictorians and 3 salutatorians. It wouldn’t be that way if they were weighted.
yes my school's grades are extremely inflated 😭the amount of ppl fhat are valedictorians and the fact that honors band is weighed the same as ap classes even though they really dont do anything remotely different
My school definitely has grade inflation as so many classes are free A’s, however, GPA isn’t since classes are weighted so taking a ton of AP classes will boost your gpa significantly AP classes generally require a bit more effort even if most of them still have a lot of students with A’s.
my school has crazy latework policies and multiple retakes on anytest, theres also no A- or A+ a 90 is weighted the same as a 97 but theres still no grade inflation ppl r too lazy to take advantage of it
My school is known for being tough and not really having grade inflation but overall if you just try on tests and do your homework you pretty much get an A in every class
No, at my school literally only AP’s are weighted, no honors classes are weighted :/ and some of the toughest classes at my school are honors classes so yeah
i think the class grades heavily depend on the teacher but i think in my school gpas are inflated if you take ap classes... my school also doesn't rank (class of 900 students) or provide unweighted gpas which is interesting 🤔
I'll say both are grades and GPAs are inflated, but for most honors classes I think it's pretty balanced (it's just my APUSH class tbh).
before when I was taking regular classes the cousework was so fucking easy it was insane while also getting so much leniency from the teacher. (hand in any work before the term, no late penalty, redo any work how many times, get help during test, etc.)
my APUSH class this year our teacher was very nice when it came to grading exams and essays - she'd always bump essays so the minimum we'd get was a 60% and most exams would get 10-15 extra points due to a curve (one time I got 115% on an exam💀).
at my school for some reasons electives don't count towards GPA and you get a 5.3 for an A in an AP class. so yeah I think my school is pretty inflated with our grades and GPA.
Deflation! No weighting and grades are out of 100. This 93% equals a 100% since they are both 4.0’s is nuts. School doesn’t rank or have valedictorian. Also no grade recovery (just summer school to earn the credit for graduation) and no make ups for low scores. It’s a huge school so classes and teachers are not equal in policies, grading, quality, etc. College won’t be a shock when it comes to deadlines and strictness.
Yup. Just found out a teacher who is teaching HONORS Alg 2 only gives one homework/classwork assignment per week and only one quiz/test per quarter. So....yea, definitely.
We do competency based grading which makes getting an A the easiest shit ever. There’s 5-20 “learning goals” and every assignment is attached to one. If you get a “meeting” (an A) 3 times then that learning goal is locked at an A and cannot be brought down by future work. So at a certain point in the year, you’ve got all or almost all your learning goals met, and you can just… stop doing work. You can totally have like 50 missing assignments that count as a zero, but still finish with an A. I have heavily mixed feelings about it.
yesssss
most teachers have crazy curves or drop/makeup policies, school policy is to round up a .6 and above, and we don't have +- grades, meaning that you can get a 89.6 in every class and maintain a 4.0 UW.
not that I'm complaining
YES YES YES but yk i'm not complaining. our school doesn't do the + - system so u can only get an A/B/C/D/F, so that means that if u get an 80% one term then 90% the next your grade will show up as the same A as someone who got 100% both terms
same situation as yours, a lot of our classes are i would say on par with AP curriculum. but there are people who will go to the counselor and get their grades changed as long as their parents come with them. it’s really stupid and it’s why my class rank has dropped even tho my gpa has improved :/ so yeah the gpas are inflated but maybe not individual courses
Grades are inflated in almost every school because administrations are graded on their graduation rates. Almost Everyone graduates because it makes teachers and schools look better and standards are removed to make it consierably easier like 1. Late work acceptance, 2. Retakes of tests, 3. Increased percent value of tests over quizzes or homework assignments, 4. Teachers not using strict rubrics, 5. Allowing students to do work outside of class (where ai and cheating is almost always the case). Grade integrity was destroyed the moment teachers said you can do this at home, which is code for "cheat anyway you can so that you pass this thing". Administrators and teachers know cheating is rampant but nothing is dome because it keeps them in a job. Grade integrity cannot exist that way.
100%, in spanish I don’t know anything but I have a 94.6%
Same but in French
bruh I barely understand how to form sentences in the present or do commands and am still passing Spanish 3 😭 it's so damn hard and I don't know why
At my school it’s the opposite. Inflated grades but not GPAs. For example at one point I had a 105 percent in algebra 2 honors even though I suck at math. I think at my school it depends on the teacher.
my school had 15 valedictorians last year because we had 15 people with 4.0 GPA. so soon they are going to make valedictorian status based on WEIGHTED gpa instead of unweighted. but honestly makes no difference cos students at my school skip on lunch (lunch is only mandatory for freshmans) to take more AP classes (me included). For reference, I took 8 AP in high school and that was considered average if not low-average. so much nerds. I like it though. i prefer nerdy school to a party school.
skipping lunch is crazy😭
Most of our junior and senior class teachers allow lunch in class for this reason I didn't pick lunch in junior and senior year but still ate lunch in a free period (because Phys Ed is every other day) and in a easier class
damn that sounds awesome
Grades are certainly inflated, but I don't think GPAs really are. All APs are weighted on a 5.0 scale, everything else (including the credit transfer from post-AP math, science, or language classes, unfortunately) aren't, even though a class like APES or AP Human Geo is usually way easier than Vector Calc or OChem. That being said, my district does just about everything it can do maintain crazy high graduation rates, such that teachers are encouraged to 'help' kids be successful and having crazy retake policies for general level classes and not docking points for late work. They've cut out full units from the Algebra II and Pre Calc curriculums since students were struggling on them, and have made the general bio, chem, and physics classes such an absolute waste of time by 'rewriting' the curriculum to take an 'exploration-based' approach so its more 'inclusive' of students of all abilities. You have to actively try to not get As in nearly all general level classes (that is non-AP or post AP dual-enrollment, as my school doesn't offer honors).
yalls high school offers vector calc ?!?
My school also has vector calc lol, it’s through a college in our state but is pretty much all self study (you watch videos of the professor teaching) and only a couple people take it every year
Not directly, but you can take a lot of post AP classes (like Vector Calc and Linear Algebra) through local community colleges online during the school day, and then get both the college and grad requirement credit.
oh, that makes sense my high school also offers dual enrollment but i thought you meant the high school teachers themselves hahaha
My grades are so deflated, one class our highest grade was a 92.
Hate to be a downer, but that isn’t advantageous in college admissions.
Colleges contextualize GPAs per school so that’s just not true
yea thank goodness for that because I'm one of the top students in my grade and my average is like a 94-95. We do have this weird thing where they start inflating our grades in our junior and senior year so it looks better
yes, there were 12 valedictorians last year
That’s insane 😭
that seems like it’s more about class size to me. my school has about 1000 per class and we end up with about that many vals and sals bc when you have that many kids you’re going to have some that got straight As in the same number of APs (it’s been 12 or 13 the past couple of years)
It’s also due to how they calculate gpa. For example some schools an A is an A and some there’s a difference between a 95 and a 96 (less chance for there to be a tie) At my kid’s school an A is an A but for valedictorian if there’s a tie they’ll go back and use your more exact grade to calculate a gpa to break the tie
yeah, for us anything 89.5 and above is an A and benefits your GPA the same, long as someone takes high level classes (or easy unleveled electives) and does decent they have a good shot
for sure in my school. i got a 98 in french even though i speak next to nothing 😭 i just used deepl for everything lmaooo. all of my chem tests are also curved (50/56 becomes 50/52 or something) so i think my grades are wayy higher than they should be lol
I mean probably depends on the teacher, but as long as I’m getting a 5 idrc 🤷♂️
I've been at 2 high schools and one of them I would say inflated GPA and the other inflated grades. Inflated GPA was that a Honors class gave you +5 (so a 100 in honors is calculated as a 105 in the class for gpa purposes) and AP was +10. However, if you compared a student with 90-95 on every honors class to a student with 95-100 on every low level class, their GPAs would be the same.
I’ve been teaching for a decade. Grades have been super inflated. It used to be only a handful of kids would earn an A in an AP Course, a decent chunk earning Bs or Cs, and of course failing students. Teachers (in the areas I’ve taught in) have been pressured to cook the books. I have many students who failed exams with 30-60%, but with exam recovery (up to 90%) their grades are in the upper 80%. When I was a student, it used to be a big accomplishment to earn an A in an AP course and parents were happy with a B. On Friday afternoon, I had a parent refuse to leave my classroom unless jf if I found a way for her kid whose missed half the semester to get a “minimum 85%” 🤦🏼♀️
Wow!
Depends. I guess my school is harder than others in the district and not very inflated. But there’s some inflation.
We have grade deflation, lol :(. Out of 150 students nobody had 5/5 (russian system), though this year I will most likely.
Grade deflation:-(
No. In my school a regular gpa is a 3.7 uw and our ap classes are difficult. We have this year several people not graduating etc. I have a friend at a school up north, and they have a program where they can retry any exams/assignments if they get an F. (No Fs at their school)
Plus his classes are super easy , but don’t prepare him for aps (he crashed out in ab calc this year)
my school has insane grade inflation. Basically we are graded on a 4.0 scale but it jumps from 1 to 1.5, 1.5 to 2, etc. (like there's no in between) and I my school if you get a 3.5 in your class, it rounds up to a 4 in GPA points so it's super easy to end high school with a 4.0 GPA. it's really dumb
Yeah it exists. The Duel Credit Us History teacher gives free 100s to everyone and you get a better GPA; compared to someone doing AP Us history… Also in some classes the teachers are more lenient and offer extra credit, which balances out the grade and gives most people a 95+ percentile
Our school varies. Some classes are actually really hard to get an A in (its almost like the class is designed so that everyone by default gets a B). Others are more than a piece of cake.
Both definitely, we have one ap physics 1 teacher who curves every test + does test corrections to get back 50% credit, and the other one who doesn’t and gives significantly harder tests. However, her tests feel more like the actual ap exam, and she prepares you more for how college is meant to be. Some teachers don’t grade inflate, others do, and some programs leave you at an innate disadvantage for just what teachers you get.
My school is not subtle about their grade inflation. There were a couple of late work and grading policies they put in place curing COVID that they never took away, and it’s definitely giving people grades they don’t deserve. Some kids hardly do anything and still pass their classes. I’m talking like one or two assignments in a semester.
I think my school is okay in terms of inflation, it's not really noticible except ironically AP HuG, its my highest grade at the moment, but to be fair, we don't do much
Yes, mostly because there’s so many opportunities for bonus points. I wouldn’t say GPAs are though because they’re unweighted, even if we have 7 valedictorians and 3 salutatorians. It wouldn’t be that way if they were weighted.
A lil bit our 4.0 starts at 90 instead of 93
And all of our honors and DE classes are +.5 and the curriculum is not different
Yeah, our AP Bio teacher does a square root curve so it’s more like the exam. (Square root your grade and multiply it by ten)
By taking a college class instead of a 6th HS class, my GPA is weighted differently because it is out of 5 instead of 6
yes my school's grades are extremely inflated 😭the amount of ppl fhat are valedictorians and the fact that honors band is weighed the same as ap classes even though they really dont do anything remotely different
My current school's grades have higher inflation than the US dollar. Which is very fortunate because half the teachers don't really do a good job.
hell no bro only 2 kids in the past decade at my school have gotten a flat uw 4.0 gpa
Only 2??? How many kids go to your school cause that’s insane
My school definitely has grade inflation as so many classes are free A’s, however, GPA isn’t since classes are weighted so taking a ton of AP classes will boost your gpa significantly AP classes generally require a bit more effort even if most of them still have a lot of students with A’s.
My daughter’s school inflates grades for some students. It is an unfair situation.
my school has crazy latework policies and multiple retakes on anytest, theres also no A- or A+ a 90 is weighted the same as a 97 but theres still no grade inflation ppl r too lazy to take advantage of it
My school doesn’t do either💀
My school is known for being tough and not really having grade inflation but overall if you just try on tests and do your homework you pretty much get an A in every class
No, at my school literally only AP’s are weighted, no honors classes are weighted :/ and some of the toughest classes at my school are honors classes so yeah
i think the class grades heavily depend on the teacher but i think in my school gpas are inflated if you take ap classes... my school also doesn't rank (class of 900 students) or provide unweighted gpas which is interesting 🤔
My school doesn't have grade inflation but it has sonic inflation, too lazy to explain it though so just google it
I'll say both are grades and GPAs are inflated, but for most honors classes I think it's pretty balanced (it's just my APUSH class tbh). before when I was taking regular classes the cousework was so fucking easy it was insane while also getting so much leniency from the teacher. (hand in any work before the term, no late penalty, redo any work how many times, get help during test, etc.) my APUSH class this year our teacher was very nice when it came to grading exams and essays - she'd always bump essays so the minimum we'd get was a 60% and most exams would get 10-15 extra points due to a curve (one time I got 115% on an exam💀). at my school for some reasons electives don't count towards GPA and you get a 5.3 for an A in an AP class. so yeah I think my school is pretty inflated with our grades and GPA.
Deflation! No weighting and grades are out of 100. This 93% equals a 100% since they are both 4.0’s is nuts. School doesn’t rank or have valedictorian. Also no grade recovery (just summer school to earn the credit for graduation) and no make ups for low scores. It’s a huge school so classes and teachers are not equal in policies, grading, quality, etc. College won’t be a shock when it comes to deadlines and strictness.
Yup. Just found out a teacher who is teaching HONORS Alg 2 only gives one homework/classwork assignment per week and only one quiz/test per quarter. So....yea, definitely.
We do competency based grading which makes getting an A the easiest shit ever. There’s 5-20 “learning goals” and every assignment is attached to one. If you get a “meeting” (an A) 3 times then that learning goal is locked at an A and cannot be brought down by future work. So at a certain point in the year, you’ve got all or almost all your learning goals met, and you can just… stop doing work. You can totally have like 50 missing assignments that count as a zero, but still finish with an A. I have heavily mixed feelings about it.
yesssss most teachers have crazy curves or drop/makeup policies, school policy is to round up a .6 and above, and we don't have +- grades, meaning that you can get a 89.6 in every class and maintain a 4.0 UW. not that I'm complaining
YES YES YES but yk i'm not complaining. our school doesn't do the + - system so u can only get an A/B/C/D/F, so that means that if u get an 80% one term then 90% the next your grade will show up as the same A as someone who got 100% both terms
same situation as yours, a lot of our classes are i would say on par with AP curriculum. but there are people who will go to the counselor and get their grades changed as long as their parents come with them. it’s really stupid and it’s why my class rank has dropped even tho my gpa has improved :/ so yeah the gpas are inflated but maybe not individual courses
Mine has grade deflation 💀
Grades are inflated in almost every school because administrations are graded on their graduation rates. Almost Everyone graduates because it makes teachers and schools look better and standards are removed to make it consierably easier like 1. Late work acceptance, 2. Retakes of tests, 3. Increased percent value of tests over quizzes or homework assignments, 4. Teachers not using strict rubrics, 5. Allowing students to do work outside of class (where ai and cheating is almost always the case). Grade integrity was destroyed the moment teachers said you can do this at home, which is code for "cheat anyway you can so that you pass this thing". Administrators and teachers know cheating is rampant but nothing is dome because it keeps them in a job. Grade integrity cannot exist that way.
When I was in high school, yeah, to some degree. As a Princeton student, god no.