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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Ha! That's nothing. I got a 93 B. The graded down on the curve after the fact. Spoke to the dean nothing I could do. Academia is so corrupt. [/quote]

Sophomore year of college, I failed a class with an 88.5% thanks to the curve. The passing cutoff was set at 89. Had to retake it the next year. I got a 95 - the passing grade that year was 73.  I hate curves. You know the material or don’t, it shouldn’t matter what anyone else knows.

I truly don’t understand what OP or the kid hope to achieve by posting on TikTok. [/quote]

Curves that brutal are mostly used in weed out classes where they only want a certain number to advance in the major that year. That's why engineering  and CS grades tend to be lower because nearly everyone who advances got a C in the weed out classes no matter how many they got right on the final. Typically the engineers who have the perfect GPAs are simply the one who had the highest score in that one weed out class (and why there is a pretty low min GPA cut off for engineering interviews, since nearly everyone has a C or 2 by design).[/quote]

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