Did your teachers "curve" grades? If so, how? Did anyone's grade ever end up lower as a result?

[Sikeliot]

People often speak of "curving" grades in the sense of, "Oh, this test was so hard and we all did so badly, let's hope the teacher curved our grades so we didn't all get Cs or Ds."

But theoretically, curving a grade means whatever the average is, is set to a C, and wherever you fall relative to that average will affect you either positively or negatively. Thus, if the average grade is a 91, that would become a C if a teacher actually curved along a bell curve.

Did you ever have teachers who said they curved grades? If so did it benefit or harm your grades compared to your raw percent of correct answers?

[Sikeliot]

I'll add that if you use a bell curve, the average is a "C" -- by the idea that with normal distribution, that is the typical grade. Which means, if the actual average is higher than what a C is, the curve will hurt people's grades and if the average is below what a C usually is, it will raise them.

But has a teacher of yours ever done this?

[asingh]

Yea, it used to happen at my school. Only 2 A's were given, and rest were reverse extrapolated till, F. That does not mean, there had to be F's, but a threshold was created, below "x" is F for this test/assessment. It depends how large the buckets were made, and the student strength, and the teacher took a call, depending, holistically on overall performance. It is primarily the upper/lower limit for each bracket which would matter.

[Lobotomist]

Yep. Once happened to me, because of my political stance.

[Rastko]

No,never.

[RussiaPrussia]

yeah it happened a lot of times, teachers always gave some weaker students always some benefits to not giving them 5s, so they always asked the weakest students about the subjects more often and in general turn a blind eye at giving notes. At the end of our school last class the better students like me were really mad.

We said to our teacher its unfair giving them benefits when it comes to not finishing school by having critical notes while the good students like me had to do hard work to get a 3 or a 2. Most other better students where for treating them the same way like us but people like me argued if the teacher turns a blind eyes on them they should do the same for us, thats when i got instead of a 2 a 1 in history

[Angharad]

There was usually a curve when I was in college. Sometimes people got higher grades, and once in a while there was a few people who got worse grades, like 93% percent was the cut off for an A.

When I was in high school our French exams were on a curve. Everyone hated me though, because I got 100% on just about every one.

[larali]

I think I had some teachers that did that, but I made crappy grades anyway so I wasn't too upset.

[Kazimiera]

---> moved to Education

[Partizan]

It happened both positively and negatively on me...

Positively:

Because I am very talkative in lesson and I always try to contribute(in verbal ones especially) I always passed Turkish, Literature, History, Geography etc. with "5"(A-, A, A+) in my 12 years of education life. Also teachers always had a positive opinion on me, except one(because my father once scolded him due to my marks, since he knew I would not get less than A- in any verbal lesson. If it would be Maths, it would be me who is scolded since my family knew that I hated maths and it was the reason ).

Negatively:

I have a very bad handwriting, that is the reason. Also opposite to verbal lessons, I used to be very indifferent to things such as Maths and discuss politics with my deskmate in half of the lesson So I understand my teachers' decision a little bit.

About class overall, I can say generally teachers curved notes both positively and negatively. But in last year of my highschool education, it was only positively since we were preparing for YGS-LYS.