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Wow, your tests must be easy.

• forgottenpass 13y ago
  That was the quick and easy answer. Testing that doesn't expect mastery of the material will, of course, work differently.
• phamilton 13y ago
  C means satisfactory. B means above average. A means exceptional. The expectation is a 70%. It is expected that the average student will get almost 1/3 wrong. However, recent grade inflation has skewed the original meaning of these definitions
• caw 13y ago
  Or there's a curve so you fit each letter to 10% of participants. Generally it's a bell curve though so most people end up in C, since that's "average" or "satisfactory". I had a few classes in college, where in a very 1984-esque fashion, failing (<60% correct) was passing. You just had to fail less than everyone else.