<p>I have had several professors basically like that, except for the fact that in the end they actually curved so nobody got royally screwed like these students did. </p>
<p>You know there is a serious problem when the professor sees a grade distribution like this and then explains it like this:</p>
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<p>How can you possibly have no idea what the problem is? It’s an attitude like this from a professor that you can basically be sure this will happen again with him teaching a class. </p>
<p>I also am not a fan of professors who decide to throw out wildly unrelated questions on midterms/finals than examples or things analyzed in class only to result in a midterm/final average of < 50%. I understand that is how a curve is made and it has helped me numerous times, but come on how much are you really analyzing a student’s learning capabilities if you’re not testing on things learned in the class?</p>