Comment on Anon studies Organic Chemistry

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• naught101@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  They do in conservatives’ anti-intellectual fantasies

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  • bremen15@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Bullshit. I am one.

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    • naught101@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      #NotAllConservatives

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• sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Yup, they have their TAs grade exams and grade on a curve so only a fixed percent passes.

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  • stevedice@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    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.

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    • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Dang, that sucks. At the end of the day, it’s up to the professor how to assign grades.

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  • rami@ani.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I don’t think the curve goes the other way tho. If everyone for above an 80 or so that doesn’t mean 80 becomes a failing grade. Although tbh I’m not sure about that because I don’t think I ever participated in an exam that had that happen.

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    • YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I have never once had an exam graded on a curve. But I’ve never done any post grad studies, although from what my PhD holding mom says, it’s more of less just a pass/fail system.

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    • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I’ve never seen or heard of that being a case.

      The closest is test scores for admissions where the score is irrelevant and only the top X get in. But that’s made apparent at the outset, whereas a curve is done after the fact if people do poorly.

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      • WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        It’s basically just modern eugenics with extra steps.

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  • bremen15@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Exactly. OP described a very different process.

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