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Yup, they have their TAs grade exams and grade on a curve so only a fixed percent passes.
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.
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.
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.
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.
It's basically just modern eugenics with extra steps.
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Exactly. OP described a very different process.