I'm saying that I don't understand the purpose of needlessly inflating point totals for a class. why make a course work 1000 points if only 100 are sufficient. Say for example I need to grade a student's tray of 15 chocolate chip cookies. If the assignment is worth 30 points and a few things are wrong with a couple cookies (one is misshaped, another is burnt, etc.) then I can simply deduct 1 or 2 points for those errors. But inflating the value to 100 points or even 150 points for the sole purpose of trying to meet 1000 points makes grading the cookie tray much more complicated. Should that same burnt cookie be minus 1 point or 5 points or all 10 points?