Why do professors scale marks and raise the marks of students that don't deserve it?

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So you believe scaling a student from a 30% to a 65% is fair and the right of the student? What an awful entitlement complex you have. If the majority of the students failed with a 30%, they clearly demonstrated they did not understand the material, and if it wasn’t for department requirements and the fact the university needs students to take the course in the future, they would not have curved it. It isn’t about students who deserve the grade, unless you believe a 30% should be considered a pass in a course?

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<p>I believe it is fair if the test was not representative of the material. If only 40% of the material on the test was actually representative of what was covered in the class, and most students scored a 30%, then I see no problem with it. You seem to think that all professors write fair tests, but in my experience that isn’t the case. I had a prof who intentionally made the tests so hard that people rarely scored above 60%, and usually they were the people who were intuitively good at the subject, so their grades were curved up to As, and the median was set at a C.</p>