Anon studies Organic Chemistry
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With the amount of tests I had where I was the highest grade at ~60% and still got the equivalent of a D, I would have loved some of this curve you guys keep talking about.
Dang, that sucks. At the end of the day, it's up to the professor how to assign grades.
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Because if the next cohort is simply performing better you force some students to be graded below their performance, which is unfair punishment, and if they're worse then some will be graded higher. It's especially unfair when the composition of students changes rapidly or when used over very mixed groups of students.
Grading should be decided based on achieved learning targets, not group rank. It's not a fucking sport.
I've never heard of a curve being used to adjust scores downward, only to adjust them upward.
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My first introduction to this bullshit was calculus. Teacher bragged about only passing halve his students. Like my man... that ain't the brag you think it's is 1, 2 this is a fucking prereq for the vast vast majority of us!
State Universities lovee failing a student in an entry- level course, because the state will subsidize tuition twice for a given class per student.
They don't like doing it a second time because the student has to pay full tuition, and when classes triple in price they're more likely to drop.
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Yeah, when a prof or teacher says "my course is so hard, only a few people pass" then I immediately translate that to "I am a shit teacher".
So long as you do the work and aren't a lazy ass student, you should have a decent pass.
Only exception I have seen was when the professor was kind of a troll. He was a good teacher. This was in a pretty entry level physics class at a tech school, so we basically got a high school level physics as a pre-req for our degree in whatever 2 year program we were in.
He spent the week leading up to the first big test talking about how hard it was, how people needed to take it seriously, etc.
He handed out the grades after and everyone was visibly upset, nobody had a passing grade. Then he explained, after letting us freak out for a minute, that the score at the top was out of 50, not 100 and I think everyone passed
After that the class pretty fun.
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i think multiple-choice-exams* are even better because they're corrected by a machine by scanning the checkboxes and saying either "yes" or "no". it's 100% fair and also really effective.
* where applicable
I had so many horrible multiple choice tests where the number of correct answers was stated and I was 100% sure that that wasn't correct, but there was no room for additional remarks to explain my thoughts.
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I've never heard of a curve being used to adjust scores downward, only to adjust them upward.
I've seen dozens of examples
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This probably didn't actually happen, but I did have a physics class in college where we had an exam where the highest score was 35%, so it was graded on an absurd curve
I had a Chem class where the prof opened with "my goal is to fail as many Engineers as possible". The average on the final was 27%. Luckly some important admistrator in the Eng department's kid was in one of those classes and they got the tenured professor fired.
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Everyone I know who's ever done uni marking was getting paid a pittance and expected to work at an extremely fast rate.. I kinda understand this
He regraded my assignment, got a 10 minute empty lecture from the professor, and nothing else changed most likely including the pittance.
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Wait... are there universities that don't have an anonymous exam system?
I have never heard of this in my life, and I have no idea if my school does that. US student if that matters. I've either done exams online (but logged in), in person, or just had a final project that served as an exam. Hell, even popular HS exams like the PSAT and ACT should have our names on them, as far as I remember. Like maybe when they grade them via scantron they don't see it, but idk.
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Bullshit. I am one.
#NotAllConservatives
