Grade deflation: first-class degrees back to pre-pandemic levels

Lets be clear many who get firsts these days would have got a 2.1 even 2.2 twenty years ago. Grade inflation is rampant and it is all because we make exams very predictable (including providing samples!), marking is nowhere need as rigrous as it should be . Also the tasks we set students to do is generally designed to help the weakest get through so the good students can easily get firsts and hopefully will give you a good NSS score in return. The second you start getting tough on students then NSS scores are adversely affected and the senior managment team will be chasing after you.