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<p>Nice explanation, I believe you now.</p>
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<p>Lol… Define common sense, your whole argument here seriously lacks any substance, and you’ve failed to explain your logic.</p>
<p>Your argument is that the material itself decides who will pass, but that’s ridiculous because of all the examples I gave above that support the contrary. Roughly the same material is taught in calculus all over the country, yet ever program has different ratios of students that pass the class, different grade distributions, etc. Thus, my argument is that the program determines who will pass the class…</p>
<p>Then you switch your argument to say that now it’s because some students score lower on a test that others. Well, how about the fact that students at the same university taking a course in the Spring and earning an A have a high probability of taking the course in the Fall and failing? That doesn’t bode well for your argument at all…
On top of this, in a theoretical sense your argument fails miserably - because the nature of a curve is that the lower percentiles will fail no matter what, even if they know a considerable amount of the material tested.</p>
<p>So, I leave it to you to explain your logic, because it doesn’t seem like common sense to me.</p>