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Just curious isn’t there a minimum baseline in the US for numeracy and literacy for you to even enroll in higher education?

In the UK you needed to have at least a C in maths and English to study at a university. This was 17 years ago.

This was not negotiable and I believe applied to all universities and all courses.

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In theory, yes. But as the report makes clear, grade inflation is rampant. 25% of the students in remedial math had a 4.0 (straight A) GPA in math during high school. And over 40% of the remedial math students had taken precalc or calculus in high school.

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