Comment on Anon studies Organic Chemistry

• stevedice@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      It’s basically just modern eugenics with extra steps.

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      • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Username checks out.

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• bremen15@feddit.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Exactly. OP described a very different process.

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