grade inflation
A gradual upward trend in grades awarded to students during the decades since the…A gradual upward trend in grades awarded to students during the decades since the mid-20th century, reported in a number of countries and at a number of levels of schooling and sometimes offered as evidence of a decline in academic standards.
Meaning
1 senses(uncountable)A gradual upward trend in grades awarded to students during the decades since the mid-20th century, reported in a number of countries and at a number of levels of schooling and sometimes offered as evidence of a decline in academic standards.
Lessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable