Why Do Professors Curve Grades?

I provide a brief description on why professors curve grades.

[@1light4love]

Love it, just what I was looking for, thank you!! Keep up the good work!

[@andrewrai5752]

You've never met a professor who has graded down yet? Welcome to law school lol!

[@Sarge92]

i get your explanation but your job isn't to generate a score based on how hard they tried your job is to educate them to a standard the world outside can rely on when I need my taces filing I want someone who can do the job the same as any other person with the same skills I don't want to have to consult a tax accountant expert to explain to me what the best years for tax accountants are like I would with wines there should be a clear defined grade that in one shot sorts everyone if you are great you get a A if your a little off the mark B if you just about got the job done C they don't shorten or lengthen marathons to suit the athletes they don't adjust building code to suit the electrcian you should set the standard and adjust YOURSELF to teach these students not adjust the test to them

[@tb8183]

Fair points. I’m watching as many videos as possible about the topic because I really don’t get a logical explanation on how adjusting grades is a solution to a below average or above average class

[@tb8183]

Let’s keep in mind standards could vary in time for job applications: for example in the 1980s the standards for a taxman were different from todays standards because now we have computers and the skill set needed to do well in that job for example is changed

[@CountChokcula]

​@@tb8183now we have artificial intelligence

[@FastEnglishLessons]

Ideally 75%! I knew it instinctively. Look at it fractionally, if you understood 3/4 of something you have done well. How does this become a negative thing. Understanding 1/2 of something I can see also not being great, but being a complete failure worthy of zero points... it seems a little odd instinctively. I think 85% plus is the average because 80-90% is considered the minimum decent grade these days due to tradition, not the actual numbers and how they relate to each other. For certain important things - I think we need a 95-100% score in life, but for more abstract things, is understanding 3/4s or most of it a bad thing?

[@bruisersdilemma354]

Grading on a curve is no different than participation trophies....

[@JA-nv4zb]

When everyone has the same shit coach sometimes it's necessary