<p>I always hear about students saying that class 'x' has a brutal curve for example. I understand how the grade curve works but what exactly would make a curve brutal? Thanks.</p>
<p>Curving so the majority of students get Cs would be a pretty brutal curve, I think.</p>
<p>Or if the tests are too easy, so getting only a couple of points off puts you pretty low in the distribution.</p>
<p>Might be the structure of the curve, or the students in the curve, I suppose. Moral of the story: don’t take calc with the engineering students.</p>
<p>True life about those engineering majors…</p>