“Inflation of internal grades is a documented practice in some (mostly) private secondary schools that endanger social justice with regard to access to higher education,” writes Cristina Costa Santos, researcher at CINTESIS – Center for Health Technology and Services Research, and Professor at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Porto (FMUP), in an article featured in the Público.
The professor has again touched a raw nerve and recalls some data from a study she coordinated on this subject: students from secondary schools that inflate grades perform significantly worse in higher education than students coming from secondary schools where grades are not inflated.
Read more here (in Portuguese).