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Anon studies Organic Chemistry (sh.itjust.works)

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[–] Unlearned9545@lemmy.world 7 points 4 days ago (1 children)

At my uni they'd take the highest grade of the class and reset that as the max points and grade from there.

So if max points on an exam was 120 and no-one scored higher then an 85, then an 85 would be an A, 75 a B, etc.

I'm a mediocre student but an amazing test taker and used to compete on math teams. So some of the math heavy engineering courses I would get perfect exam scores and sometimes the prof would ignore me as the highest grade. I was frustrated at first because my A didn't mean the same as someone's but I realized later it was to stop me from getting beat up by a bunch of 30 yo guys.

[–] fibojoly@sh.itjust.works 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I still think the ABCDF system sounds so... childish? But presented like that I can see how it makes sense. I always thought about more absolute systems as more, eh, honest? More of an absolute value of our worth, but in truth it depends completely on our teachers, so it's not really any "truer" than the letter system. Just a different bias.
I'm glad there are so many interesting answers in this thread :)

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 3 points 4 days ago

Grades in the US are on a 4 point scale, with decimal values between:

3.5-4.0 - A
3.0-3.5 - B
2.5-3.0 - C
2.0-2.5 - D
1.0-2.0 - F

A "good" grade in a class is 3.5 or better, and 2.0 is usually barely passing. Letter grades are used through high school, and high school and college use the 4 point scale on transcripts, and people translate to the letter grades for talking with friends.

In assignments, you get a percent rating, with 60% being barely passing. There's a lot of granularity there.

Grading on a curve means the professor expects a certain distribution of scores, so of everyone scores poorly, the test is bad, so the scores are readjusted according to that expected curve. If people outperform, then there's no curve and you get the score you get.