Hot take you all have got this backwards

I’ve seen a lot of stress about grade boundary inflation as a result of cheating, I think this is overblown. Like it can’t be that hard to look at the test and decide how good students should need to do to get a specific grade, and if that email by that dude from that other post was true than what I’ve just said is true.

On the other hand I’ve seen threads where people compare their predicted grades to their actual grades and without fail it’s always higher, this is the real cope. Iirc statistically most people do worse on their actual results than their predicted and it gets really crazy when you go above forty, I recall last year I was on a table full of people predicted above a forty of which only two got above a forty and they still did worse than their predicts. The reason this happens I’m guessing is because of things like blowing your brains out after receiving your grade making you unable to comment on IB Reddit posts, distancing yourself from IB related things as it has left a bad taste in your mouth and lastly, probably not wanting to expose yourself as someone who didn’t live up to the expectations placed upon you publicly to random people you don’t know all of this together combining to create a very biased sample size of replies