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Ripped from the Headlines!
I took this question from a recent news story about a school that was doing this. As always I appreciate comments so that I can edit the question as necessary. Have fun!
School official: In this difficult job market it is important to give our students every opportunity for success. Our students have had difficulty in recent years in landing jobs at prestigious firms and in gaining admission to prominent graduate programs, such as top law schools and medical schools. One reason for our difficulty is the strict grading scale used at this university. Our students graduate with lower GPAs relative to comparable students at other universities. Therefore, in order to strengthen our students' resumes, we should simply raise GPAs, retroactively, by ½ point for all current students and those who have graduated within the last 8 years.
Which of the following, if true, would most undermine the possibility of success of the official's plan?
A) Students who have already enrolled in graduate programs would not benefit from the GPA increase.
B) The plan to increase GPAs only for students who have graduated within the past 8 is unfair to students who graduated earlier.
C) Competing schools will raise the GPAs of their students and recent graduates in response to the plan above.
D) A few employers may consider the GPAs reported by the school to be less valid since they have been artificially raised.
E) Some students might have GPAs exceeding the maximum 4.0 if this plan in implemented.
I took this question from a recent news story about a school that was doing this. As always I appreciate comments so that I can edit the question as necessary. Have fun!
School official: In this difficult job market it is important to give our students every opportunity for success. Our students have had difficulty in recent years in landing jobs at prestigious firms and in gaining admission to prominent graduate programs, such as top law schools and medical schools. One reason for our difficulty is the strict grading scale used at this university. Our students graduate with lower GPAs relative to comparable students at other universities. Therefore, in order to strengthen our students' resumes, we should simply raise GPAs, retroactively, by ½ point for all current students and those who have graduated within the last 8 years.
Which of the following, if true, would most undermine the possibility of success of the official's plan?
A) Students who have already enrolled in graduate programs would not benefit from the GPA increase.
B) The plan to increase GPAs only for students who have graduated within the past 8 is unfair to students who graduated earlier.
C) Competing schools will raise the GPAs of their students and recent graduates in response to the plan above.
D) A few employers may consider the GPAs reported by the school to be less valid since they have been artificially raised.
E) Some students might have GPAs exceeding the maximum 4.0 if this plan in implemented.
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