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Inflation in Marks

Today morning I read about the SSC results in the newspaper. I was really surprised to see such a rise in the number of people getting over 90%. I remember, when results used to be declared in my school days, they used to write the number of people getting 80+ percentage, on the blackboard at the school gate. In fact, if I am not wrong, in 2001, when I passed SSC exam, we had 23 people crossing the 80% barrier. I don't know how many scored 80+% this time at my school, but newspapers say that Bal Mohan Vidyamandir had 48 students scoring more than 90%. What was more surprising is the fact that the topper in Maharashtra scored 99.09%. 99.09%? This is insane! I am not sure but am I missing any link here? I thought with 3 languages and subjects like history, it was impossible to get so many marks. I guess inflation has caught with SSC marks as well ;) 

To be honest, same would be applicable to my batch as well. Probably in 1991, the fraction of people getting 80% might have been much less than what we had. I wonder what is going to be the situation in 2021!

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June 16, 2013 at 7:30 PM
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