That is for sure a thing but that's definitely separate from grade inflation. The grade inflating teacher might give the person who almost got it right an A, t

That is for sure a thing but that's definitely separate from grade inflation. The grade inflating teacher might give the person who almost got it right an A, the teacher not inflating might give that student a B. Even in these super difficult engineering classes at ultra hard schools there are always some people getting the answers right and showing all the work correctly so everyone knows they aren't cheating. I had some classes that were incredibly difficult where realistically maybe a bunch more of us should have failed.. the teacher scaled things up but we sure as hell did not get undeserved As.