Talking to old timers when I was young (I'm getting to be an old timer), they were all graded on a bell curve in college: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grading

Talking to old timers when I was young (I'm getting to be an old timer), they were all graded on a bell curve in college: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grading_on_a_curve https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grading_on_a_curve That sounds great when the tests are hard, but when they're easy, if you got a B and you had the lowest B, it would turn into an F. Of course, the worse students (relatively) would flunk out of school. If you were in a batch of really bright students and you were one of them, that would suck. When I went to college, I remember professors only applying the curve when everyone did poorly on the exam. For what it's worth, my wife recently completed her college degree and it was about the same in difficulty as mine 20+ years ago.