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If 75 is a failing grade, then perhaps the average is merely shifted where you are compared to me. The thrust of my comment wasn't the precise value for the ave
by syrrim 8y ago
If 75 is a failing grade, then perhaps the average is merely shifted where you are compared to me. The thrust of my comment wasn't the precise value for the average, but that deviations from this average would be detected and reprimanded. Would you say this is accurate? Would you receive notice from administration is the average was found to be, say, 95%?
This is admittedly a more likely explanation for harvard's higher grades then the one I offered.
- dual_basis 8y ago75 isn't failing, it is a "C", however it is a typical cutoff for using a course as a prerequisite for some other course. <60 is failing. Very few students actually fail courses. In general, in my experience, grades for the courses weren't a symmetric normal distribution with a mean of 75, like it is thought. The mean is more like 83, and it was skewed toward higher grades. To answer your final question, no, I don't think the administration would care if your class average was 95%, quite the opposite. I had one professor in my undergrad who was more "old-school" - challenging coursework, no spoon-feeding, your grade was your grade and that was that. He'd regularly complain about visits from the "Center for Student Success" who complained that he was grading too harshly and fought (on behalf of specific students who went to them with complaints) for higher grades. According to my classmates, they were actually able to get their grades overriden at some level higher than he could view from his system.