score adjustment

score adjustment
   American
   giving higher marks to non-whites
   A device to conceal lower scholastic achievement or to compensate for inadequate schooling etc.:
    The little-known practice is also referred to in certain government and employment circles as 'within-group norming' or 'score adjustment strategy'. {Chicago Times, 14 May 1991)

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