The article suggests, though that the author WAS trying to abide by an institutional anti-grade-inflation policy and that's why the lower grade was given in the

The article suggests, though that the author WAS trying to abide by an institutional anti-grade-inflation policy and that's why the lower grade was given in the first place. The trouble seems to be that not everyone at the institution has bought into the policy - or perhaps that some hidden perverse incentives remain at multiple levels.