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Not only are they curved, different courses are 'curved' according to vastly different rules. Some curve percentages, some curve only letters, and different di
by Bartweiss 10y ago
Not only are they curved, different courses are 'curved' according to vastly different rules. Some curve percentages, some curve only letters, and different distributions are enforced for different classes.
So if this is post-curve data, I would expect it to be basically worthless as a reflection of skill distribution.
- JoeAltmaier 10y agoYeah, lots of ways to fudge. One exam, my friend Brian and I were allowed to skip the final and take our grade. So the rest of the class could go from failing, to getting a grade on a curve. There was that much gap between us and the rest.
- spike021 10y agoMy Operating Systems course had a really odd grade curve. There was a listed one in the syllabus, but then the exams were so difficult that nobody was scoring above 80-85 out of 100, so there had to be an additional full grade curve after that. So yeah, post-curve isn't helpful. Unless there's some way to normalize the data.