<p>My teacher curves grades by adding points to our tests. However, those who get near 100% can only acheive 100% on that test. Don't you think this is unfair to those who do really well? Why should their grades be capped? I have had two teachers who have done this so far. </p>
<p>Is this suppose to eliminate competition and force those up top to not be so competitive? Do many college professors use this curving method?</p>
<p>My math teacher curves each test by giving us 2 extra points, so if we were to get 49/50 it would become a 51/50. The class average is like an 85.</p>
<p>My history teacher always curves grades / gives extra points because they're almost impossible to ace.</p>
<p>"Okay then, you guys get 5 extra points because it's cold."</p>
<p>College professors do this a lot partlyt because most people do really poorly on teir tests but I'm sure differnt colleges implement different grading schemes.</p>
<p>As far as I know, no teacher in my high school does this.</p>
<p>no we dont ..every once in a while they will curve a test but usually never</p>
<p>my ap music theory teacher does.</p>
<p>he's the only one.</p>
<p>usually curves are nonexistent though. i get a 100 and destroy the curve. if i don't, someone else does.</p>
<p>in the case someone doesn't get a 100 there's usually like a +2 or +5 curve.</p>
<p>My Study Hall teacher has some real nice curves, is that relevant...</p>
<p>My teachers curve in a way so that if someone gets 100, there's no curve.</p>
<p>Like if the highest is a 96 and everyone else bombed the test, everyone would get 4 points.</p>
<p>Only my science teachers curve.</p>
<p>^ that's how my teacher curves.</p>
<p>The type of curve that you get really depends on the professor.</p>
<p>I had one who would do those awesome linear curves, so it would be possible to get more than 100.</p>
<p>But I also had a professor who would curve the grade depending on how many points it took to raise the class average to a 75 or so.</p>
<p>And then there are those stupid bell curves, ugh.</p>
<p>In my science class if we are jipped time (because we have class right after lunch) and the class only does so-so, she will take the highest grade and make it out of that (Ex: if the test is originally out of 100, but the highest is 98, it will be out of 98, so that person gets 100%)</p>
<p>My math teacher curves every single quiz and test...it helps my grade a lot :) and he gives homework checks every single day. It's ridiculous...what kind of teacher gives h.w. checks everyday? lolz</p>
<p>At my school, AP Physics, AP Calc BC (not sure about AB), AP Chem, and AA Chem are curved. One of the APUSH teachers curves, and the APEcon teacher drops one test. All the teachers curve in different ways. Some curve the grading scale, others curve individual point values.</p>
<p>We get some extra points on tests in APUSH. In spite of this, the class average is almost always a C. The tests are basically impossible because they test the most minute details (e.g. the specific state in which some random event occurred), which I assume isn't the best approach in a history AP.</p>
<p>Our APUSH tests were always murderously detailed. We got a curve to bring the class average to 80%, which was usually at least 10% extra so that was nice. :) </p>
<p>My AP Calc teacher actually curves the grade instead of the tests. So a 79% is an A, and you're not actually failing until you get below a 40.</p>
<p>usually teachers curve the median to 80-90 in ap classes her(depending on how this year does against previous in raw scores, sometimes 2/3 of a class gets an A if they do better than previous years)</p>
<p>Only the Math teacher.</p>
<p>My physics teacher curves, but it's like this incredibly complex bell curve...he has like a huge excel spreadsheet with all these different numbers and calculations..so weird, only from a physics teacher.</p>
<p>Unfortunately, I'm usually the victim of "curve capping" i.e. he won't go over 100 so even though I should technically get extra credit according to his system, I don't, but whatever!</p>
<p>my college class professors would curve by adding enough points so the high scorer got 100% (so if the highest score is 90, each person gets 10 points).</p>
<p>It was necessary in physics...each exam was 6 problems, and you got to choose which one wouldn't be graded, so each problem was worth 20 points for a total of 100. </p>
<p>The average curve was +20 points. lol</p>
<p>No curves in my school except math finals. For some reason people don't do well on them.</p>