Sentences with phrase «grade inflation makes»
Results from the General Certificate of Secondary Education exam that students take at age 16 show improvement each year, but there is a general recognition that grade inflation makes the progress illusory.
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This tool uses the present value of bond portfolios, adjusted for interest rate and inflation expectations, to show current retirees how much in retirement savings they need today to account for every $ 1 they need in the future, assuming they hold a portfolio made up entirely of investment - grade bonds and longer - term Treasurys.
The changes we have made will help tackle the grade inflation of the past.»
The author concludes that such practices as grade inflation and grade nonequivalence make it difficult for college admissions officers to make a valid assessment of a student's achievement in comparison with other applicants.
Tornadoes rated this way were the benefactors of «grade inflation» relative to tornadoes that were rated after the adoption of the Fujita scale, when ratings were made only after considerable in - person scrutiny of the damage, often by engineers who considered not just the damage at face value, but also the quality of the construction.
Perhaps grade inflation and lowered standards have combined with the world's greatest fooling machine (computer + software) over the years to make peeple stoopids.