I remember when I was in college 10 years ago they did this grade curving thing and it made me feel bad like my achievement was masked since people that did poorly were lifted or the other way, I thought I should have failed but I passed

I am lucky that I picked up programming because I initially studied physics/engineering and I used to able to do math but now I can't anymore and my focus sucks. Writing code to me is way easier than doing math.

No, it looks like they are both getting worse and underperforming the nation: https://nces.ed.gov/nationsreportcard/subject/publications/s...