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7/17/2015 11:32:33 AM

That's pretty high. I think the mean in my honors calc 3 class was in the 50's.

--Because I remember getting something in the upper 40's and still getting a B-.

[Edited on July 17, 2015 at 11:42 AM. Reason : s]

7/17/2015 11:41:42 AM

Yea, well, the first exam I got back in college was Calc III and I did get a 57. Pretty sure a curve was involved though because I got an A somehow.

[Edited on July 17, 2015 at 11:43 AM. Reason : asgasdg]

7/17/2015 11:43:33 AM

bunch of whiners - try taking csc401 with dutta where a 10 is still a D

http://tinyurl.com/qzfb7z2

[Edited on July 17, 2015 at 11:54 AM. Reason : .]

7/17/2015 11:51:24 AM

Yeah I remember plenty of MAE classes where the mean would be 28 or 42 or something.

I also remember seeing a class there the grade distribution was 20% to each letter...I said "Sweet, only 40% Ds and Fs" and jumped on it, hahaha

7/17/2015 12:00:48 PM

Hmm. I don't know if I should feel better or worse here.

7/17/2015 12:08:15 PM

Sounds like CS7637 at gatech. I was getting 50s-70s and setting the curve on my exams. shit was insane

7/17/2015 5:26:56 PM

when I was a grad student teaching undergrad calculus, they advised us to aim for a class average of 60-70

'cuz if everybody gets 80s or 90s, there's not a lot of ground for distinguishing between the A's, B's and C's. and they only handed out A's, B's etc. to a certain percentage of students, so a pretty low class average was desirable. (I never really saw the point of only handing out A's to 15% of the kids, but whatever.)

7/17/2015 9:45:14 PM

yep, that is some bullshit.

set the standard, and then those that smoke it get As, and those who don't meet it get Fs.

i hated that mentality in engineering classes...although at the same time, if 70% of the class gets a D or an F, something is amiss, and that happened. Like I said, a professor who only gave Ds and Fs to 40% was the section everyone fought to get into.

[Edited on July 18, 2015 at 8:05 AM. Reason : ]

7/18/2015 8:03:48 AM