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[quote=Anonymous]"50% is "no credit earned," it's "see you next year," it's failing, that's the *zero* of the course grading scale"

Wrong.  A zero is the zero of the course grading scale.  The 50% rule does not prevent a teacher from assigning a zero for any student that did not meet the basic requirements of the assignment/assessment.

"If a student earns 50% on every assessment, they will fail the class."

Also wrong, as that is not automatically the case.  For a start, homework is required to be graded for completion and is required to be 10% of the grade.  A student can fill out a homework assignment with gibberish and already have 10% of the course points.  I have also taught courses that have a grade distribution that has another category for project grades.  If the student does reasonably well on the project grades but earns less than 50% on all assessments, it is possible for such a student to pass the class.  In fact, I've seen it happen.

"if there are no opportunities for extra credit to counterbalance, this does make it possible that badly failing a single test can do more harm to a grade than a perfect score can do good."

An incoherently-worded claim.  And one that is not really supported by statistics, given that outliers in *either* direction will skew the mean.
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