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[โ€“] fibojoly@sh.itjust.works 36 points 3 weeks ago (15 children)

I keep reading about people grading on a curve and I still can't grasp what that means. Do those teachers have like a set number of A B C, or whatever, they can give out? And if they've run out of A then you get a B? And if the B run out you get a C and so on? That seems a completely intellectually bankrupt practice! If you don't want more than X people passing, then just grade people with percentages and let only the first X highest through and that's it, but don't lie with fake grades! How insane...

[โ€“] RaccoonBall@lemmy.ca 21 points 3 weeks ago

basically that, yes.

though in my experience, they'd make the tests so hard that everyone would get failing or nearly failing grades, then curve up so that more people pass and some get As

only issue for them is if the average is 36% but 3 students got high 90s.. makes the curving math a lot more awkward

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