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Inflation inherently devalues currency, whether it be grades or money. The admissions director of a top-six law school told me that cum or magna degrees no longer help applicants from Harvard get into his school. While he is certainly more knowledgeable about the honors situation here than the average...
Easy grading in art, literature, and history courses tend to draw lazy students to the humanities while pushing those eager for a challenge toward the sciences and the social sciences. All areas of inquiry will suffer over the long term, as students choose their fields according to their personalities, rather...
2. Inflation inherently devalues currency, whether it be grades or money. The admissions, director of a top-six law school told that cum or magna degrees no longer help applicants from Harvard get into his school. While he is certainly more knowledgeable about the honors situation here than the average...
4. Easy grading in art, literature, and history courses tends to draw lazy students to the humanitites while pushing those eager for a challenge towards the sciences and the social sciences. All areas of inquiry will suffer over the long terms, as students choose their fields according to their personalities...
5. Lax grading allows instructors--of all ranks--to slide by without doing much of anything: it's easy to give a paper an A and write no comments. But a stricter policy would force all teachers to examine and criticize work more carefully. Along the same lines, grade inflation...