Does MIT Grade on a B or C Curve?

Colleges and Universities A-Z Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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<p>I know that MIT grades a persons tests,etc. based on a scale...but I wanted to know if they do it on a B or C curve...that is if you are average...do you get a b or c?</p>

<p>thanks</p>

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<p>As I know, they don't in first year of study.</p>

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<p>Depends on the class, which often depends on the professor and the semester it's being taken. 6.002, for instance, is curved depending on how the professor feels the class is doing. My term, our exam averages were some 10 points above what he'd expected, so we got a nice B curve. The year before us, they were below what the professor had expected, so they were a C curve.</p>

<p>Classes like 6.004, on the other hand, simply aren't curved. Then there's the freshman GIRs, which are more often B curved than not.</p>

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<p>most classes are graded on a low-B curve, so somewhere in between. I believe the assumption is that theres ABCD, so the middle is a B/C. Classes are mostly graded so that nobody need fail. Really almost everybody gets A/B/C, with more B's than C's and A's, and depending on the class more/less A's than C's.</p>