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Thanks. For the record, the average grades for the courses at my university tend to be Cs (in the case of the big introductory courses, the average is usually c

by Aqwis 15y ago

Thanks. For the record, the average grades for the courses at my university tend to be Cs (in the case of the big introductory courses, the average is usually closer to a D than a B), with about 10% of the students receiving As. This discrepancy is quite unintuitive; (intuitively) you'd expect that the grade "A" means about the same thing in two different university systems that use letter grades.

khermitian 15y ago
My experience above is from discussions with professors in higher level classes. Im not too sure if that applies to intro levels. I think that once you reach a certain level of difficultly the grade does not really reflect how well you learn the material, but more of how ridiculously smart everyone else in the class is (see that most of the test averages come out to about 50% or less).