UW graded on a bell curve?

Colleges and Universities A-Z University of Wisconsin
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<p>I read this in a studentsreview.com article. Anyone explain it to me what it is?</p>

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<p>It pretty much means that a certain % of students must get an A, a certain amount must get a B, C, D, F... Lets say the professor can only give 5 A's per class, that means that only 5 students will get A's and if there's a sixth student that did a job deserving an A, he won't get one.</p>

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<p>Some intro level classes, like psych 222 are graded like this. Most of my classes were slightly curved but if you deserved the A (ie: you scored enough points) you got it. There were not cut offs. However most of the classes naturally had around a 80-85 average, so it seemed that a natural bell curve occurs. If that's even possible.</p>

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<p>Someone told me that the average Madison GPA is 3.51, (an AB) so if there is a curve then it doesn't seem very harsh. I've only had one class with an official, fixed curve in the four years I was at Madison.</p>

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<p>The average is about a 3.1, not 3.51</p>

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<p>" juniors in Biomedical Engineering have an average GPA of 3.5 (2002-03) while Agricultural Business Management is 2.7"</p>

<p>isnt it usually the other way around?</p>

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<p>I'd say that is most likely a typo :)</p>