<p>can anyone give me a detailed explanation as to how grade deflation works?</p>
<p>thanks</p>
<p>Aww...</p>
<p>They do this at Duke?</p>
<p>yea i saw something in the Bio 26 Exam thread about curving it to a B- or seomthing. I dont really know what that means lol. my hunch though is putting the grades on a normal curve with B- as the average.</p>
<p>Math, science, and econ all tend to be grade deflated.
I'm a math major and I'm happy with a B because that means I did around the middle of the pack among a competitive class..
Nothing else though.</p>
<p>I'm not quite so sure that curving to a B- is necessarily grade deflation. If we want to get technical with the definition of each letter grade, C is the average and B would normally be above average. Thus, assuming (for simplicity sake) that a large lecture (or math class with multiple sections and a block final) has a normal distribution of scores, professors would need to curve to below a C for grade deflation to occur.</p>
<p>Technicalities aside, some classes/majors/departments are harder than others so what is considered an A effort in one class could be merely average in another.</p>