<p>Say you have a strong year and a weak year. As in, you would give identical tests both years, and one year the average was a 75% and the following it was a 65%. If the class is graded on a curve that’s redone ever year, the students failing in the 75% year likely did better than the students failing in the 65% year.</p>
<p>I know this happened to me a few times in undergrad. Historically the cutoff for an A would be 80% or so, and tests were no easier my year than others, but our averages were considerably higher since we were a “good” year, so the curve got set at a higher cutoff. I got boned by the change in the curve twice. :mad:</p>