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  • My teachers curved grades and it always benefitted everyone's grade.

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  • My teachers curved grades and it sometimes lowered people's grade.

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

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    My teachers did not curve grades.

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    Some did mostly Math and Science teachers. I do not remember ever getting a lower grade because of it.

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    Some teachers of mine would occasionally reduce the denominator of a test score by a few points, making everyone's grade slightly higher, and I've had the occasional professor who graded like 85-100% A, 70-84% B, etc...

    If I was a schoolteacher (which I will never be, in part because I despise being addressed as "Mr. Martnen"), for every single piece of graded work, be it a test, quiz, homework, project, whatever, I would take the highest grade and make that the denominator. Then, at the end of the year, I would take the highest number of overall points and make that the denominator for everyone's final grade.

    For example, If there was a test worth 80 points and the highest score anyone got was 75, the denominator would become 75 instead of 80.

    Then, at the end of the year, if there were 850 points in the class but no student had more than 835, the denominator for the final grade would be 835.

    This is what I wished had happened when I was a schoolchild.

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    Yes, I'd say about 1/3 of the tests at my old University were curved to an extent (always curved up not down), and at my current school I can't say much accurately yet since It's my first semester, but 2/3 of the midterms I took so far were curved up (1 has an unreleased grade so idk yet).
    I am fearful for the possibility of being curved down lol
    =(^.^)=

    Also I don't do classifications currently, sorry.

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