<p>What exactly is a grade inflation? lol
i mean why do ivy leagues except Cornell?? use this? </p>
<p>thanks.</p>
<p>Isn't grade inflation just rising grades meaning the students are doing better than before?</p>
<p>no!!!!!
Grade inflation is when teachers hand out high marks to students even if they didnt really earn it.</p>
<p>why would they do that?</p>
<p>it actually means too many high grades are handed out. For example, in our AP Physics class there are very few students with Cs. The average is like 87%</p>
<p>I don't think Ivy's really have grade inflation...
the students there are just smarter!
I mean how can teachers give students who have 2200 with perfect high school records Cs? it doesn't make sense to give them anything lower...</p>
<p>From what I hear, Penn is pretty good about grades. Princeton recently put a cut off of how many As professors can give out, so there's massive grade deflation there. I hear there's grade inflation at Harvard, but I haven't read anything that warrants that.</p>
<p>yea Penn doesn't inflate grades. It's actually more of the opposite, since most classes go by a curve, which means only a certain number of people get As, Bs, Cs, etc. I know for Wharton there's a really harsh grade curve.. like if you got an A but everyone else got an A+, you'd end up with a C, because teachers won't give everyone As.</p>
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<p>hmm i took this to mean that Penn is fairly easy at grading, hence is the opposite of wat venus is saying</p>
<p>i heard something along the lines of Penn giving ~40% A's or something. i think this sounds crazy. anyone have a more solid statistic on wat the curve is actually like? What % grade must students earn to receive an "A?"</p>
<p>Well, I only know about the College for sure. There are about 50% As given out, however, this really differs. In some classes (a lot of freshman and writing seminars, etc) almost everyone gets an A. In most science classes, especially at the intro level, it is more like 25%</p>
<p>the breakdown (at least in wharton and stricter college classes) is often about 20% A / 40% B / 40 C% (nearly everyone passes, but it's not easy to get an A)...</p>
<p>no % grade correlates to an A - it's not as simple as a 90% = A, 80% = B, etc., because of curves...</p>
<p>so if you get a 93% but half the class gets a 95%, you're in trouble...</p>
<p>That. really. sucks. :(</p>
<p>ya but in general, im sure trends can be discerned. there probably are general levels of performance (% wise) that usually lands you a certain grade or something</p>
<p>rather than %, we go by standard deviations above the mean; 2 is more or less a certain A, while 1 can be a b+, or so... depends on the class, though.</p>
<p>what about economics department?</p>
<p>and engineering?</p>
<p>So say on an intro biology final exam w/ 100 MC questions, wat is the lowest score (out of 100) a student can achieve and still get an A?</p>
<p>give me an extremely rough % score if you must, i just want to get a general sense</p>
<p>do you NOT understand what a curve is???</p>
<p>There is no set score for guaranteeing an A. It all depends on how well your classmates do. Like I said, if you get an A- and all of your classmates get A pluses, then you'd probably have a C. It's all in the competition</p>
<p>so on a recent biology exam the mean was a 54. if the standard deviation was a 10, then a 74 would be an A.</p>
<p>it's not just percentages, unless the class isn't curved.</p>
<p>and in general most classes in every school / department are curved to the b-/c+ range (some are higher though, like b+/b), which means that even if you get a 90, if the average is a 90, you aren't getting an A.</p>
<p>The average GPA is 3.2...</p>
<p>This tells us a few things:</p>
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<li> You won't get a 4.0 unless you study constantly, so don't worry</li>
<li> The curve won't totally kill you unless you're extremely lazy</li>
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