What Does Grading On A Curve Mean?

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[@Fearofthemonster]

It turned out my school always does this and due to distant testing (due to pandemic) everybody is cheating. So In my case bell curve is working against me because cheaters are increasing the mean score.

[@mujahid4764]

Me too!!! The school doesn't care about what is going on with students, the most important for them is how we catch cheaters, and that aid to affect all the students.

[@MrPedro4president11]

Great video!

[@MrLaggy2000]

Why should the same percentage of the class score an F that score a C? I thought the reason it was normally distributed is because many more people scored Cs than did Fs or As

[@janhhh4852]

Exactly, this isn’t a normal distribution

[@RASIII9]

@@janhhh4852 Well yeah it's just a hypothetical and it's distributed this way to make it easier to understand

[@agreedboarart3188]

My goal as a student is to not get a 34 on a test.

[@mattedwards1016]

What a stupid grading system. Students get 36% in an exam and receive a B. Grades in Australia are based off your raw mark. 85-100% raw mark from all exams throughout the year equals an A

[@dimitrifrog7845]

In Australia you don’t get 10% class averages buddy

[@ignacioflores5723]

I think exactly like you, I'm from Argentina, and we also don't use this curve system. I think every student should receive whatever mark they deserve based on how well they did on the exam, and not how well did the others

[@52andattitude48]

There are curved grades in Australia too buddy lmao

[@mattedwards1016]

@@52andattitude48 my school didn’t curve grades buddy

[@jinjunliu2401]

Yeah never understood why they do that in the US. Here in the Netherlands it's nearly the same as everywhere else. You have the raw marks and then some norm added to it, so compensation can happen when a test is harder than its supposedly to be. The norm can range from 0-3 and the raw mark gets changed with it and also a bit of tweaks so that a 10 (max score) is still only for when everything is perfect

[@EverLearner4]

If u decided that a fifth of the students are in each category, then all you have to do is to count

[@punksunabozu]

Interesting I'm 26 never knew this system

[@williampennjr.4448]

a lot of people oppose it, but I thinks its a fair way to address a poor learning environment or teachers, but it shouldnt be used in vital subjects like medical school core classes. Its better to just try to fix the environment.

[@cammando2363]

So if the average score on a test is 36%. That means most of the tests FAILED. In the real world you are not graded on a curve. If a company produces something g and their average product is only 36% of what they promised they would lose their contracts. They would be black listed. That kind of failure rate is UNACCEPTABLE. In every field of real work. Except weather prediction. And even then they hit their mark more than 36 percent of the time! If your class did that bad in this test. Maybe the teacher needs to go back and retract and make sure the students understand. This curve crap only feasibly works in fiction.

[@randombytes3998]

I find that to be shoe-horning. Here's mine: kzbin.info/www/bejne/aYurmouvr9elgaM Whaddaya think?

[@Disthron]

...is it just me or dose this seem like some old BS?