What's the biggest grade distribution you have seen?

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<p>This year's first year physics had three sections and these are the averages among the professors</p>

<p>Professor A: 71.26%</p>

<p>Professor B: 73.88%</p>

<p>Professor C: 53.48%</p>

<p>The highest mark among all three professors are pretty much competitively the same. This just goes to show you that you should use RATEmyProfessor when you choose your courses, I know I did.</p>

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<p>I had a chem class where the cutoff for a C- was a 37%. Needless to say, that’s because the professor wasn’t doing the best job of teaching the subject so kids were doing terrible. At least he curved it very nice.</p>

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<p>Lol, this year in my college, the kids in 1st year chem are having a pain. The average for the first midterm was 41% and no curving. There are two sections, one of the prof threw the midterm away if her kids are doing at least 10% better, the other prof didn’t give his kids the opportunity.</p>

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<p>One of the most notroious professors at my school…
[Daily</a> Bruin :: Students claim professor was unfair in grading system of electrical engineering class](<a href=“http://www.dailybruin.com/index.php/article/2010/05/students-decry-poor-grades-engineering-class]Daily”>http://www.dailybruin.com/index.php/article/2010/05/students-decry-poor-grades-engineering-class)</p>

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<p>Oh my god LOL</p>

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^ That looks almost exactly like the grade distribution in my 8th grade math class. Only that we were stuck with the grades; no pass/fail and no retaking. No sympathy from me.</p>

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<p>Except the grade you get in 8th grade math doesn’t matter AT ALL, whereas a failing grade in college has real implications for future job/graduate prospects.</p>

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<p>My LinAl class avg’d a 50% on 2 quizzes and slightly higher than 50% on the midterm. At Princeton, that’ll get you a B (because it’s the avg).</p>

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<p>I actually kept an e-mail that I got from a TA for an introductory statistics course just because the distribution she put in there seemed so strange to me (this was from my first Fall quarter at UCSB):</p>

<p>A: 82 and above
B: 69-81
C: 35-68
D: 34 and below</p>

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<p>^^^ That doesn’t seem that unrealistic to me. Lots of professors don’t believe in many departments theology that “x percentage must get an A and x percentage must fail”.</p>

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<p>I’m still kind of confused with how this works, but I’ll post the ones for my horrible Freshman Chemistry teacher’s first midterms and final.</p>

<p>First midterm: Mean is a 60 out of 120 (50% AVERAGE), Standard Deviation is 22. I got an 85 under extreme time stress. I could have done better.</p>

<p>Second one wasn’t that bad</p>

<p>Final: Mean is a 120 out of 210 (yeah, a 57% average), Standard Deviation is 40. I got 160.</p>

<p>I guess those are pretty high grade distributions? I’m still not really sure how standard deviation works or what it shows about how the class did as a whole.</p>