That represents the increase in the percentage of A grades given out by college instructors since the 1960's. For another way of looking at the researchers' data, they produced showing how grading ...

The college majors that tend to lead to the most profitable professions are also the stingiest about awarding A's. Science departments grade, on a four-point scale, an average of 0.4 points lower ...

But the ACT and College Board, which owns the SAT, argue that a combination of grades and test scores is the best overall guide to selecting students who are likely to succeed in college.

The college is changing its grading scale, beginning in the 2013-14 academic year, to be more in line with other institutions -- notably graduate schools, said Jeffrey Palmer, media relations ...

The inverse correlation between grades and creativity was further demonstrated in a 2016 NYU study of 10,000 college students. Researchers found that as GPA went down, innovation tended to go up.

Their data shows that while just 15 percent of grades were A's in 1960, they now account for 43 percent today. Those who have bemoaned the steady raise of GPAs at universities in the U.S. now have ...