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From: gupta@cullsj.UUCP (Yogesh Gupta)
Newsgroups: comp.edu
Subject: Re: cruelty to undergrads
Message-ID: <266@cullsj.UUCP>
Date: 15 Mar 88 22:10:03 GMT
References: <18618@topaz.rutgers.edu> <401@lscvax.UUCP>
Organization: Cullinet Software, San Jose, CA
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Summary: Percent marks vs. Percentile.

In article <401@lscvax.UUCP>, ram@lscvax.UUCP (Ric Messier) writes:
> 
> Not grade on a curve but set a C equal to 45%. Maybe I'm not a teacher
> but I could have SWORN that that is what a curve really is. I think I
> learned that in Statistics class.
> 
If you set a C equal to the 45th percentile, you are grading on some kind
of a curve.  However, the original poster said that he gave a C to someone
who got 45% of the marks.  So, if the test was tough and nobody got above
50 (out of 100) and a few people got between 45 and 50, they would get Cs
and the top grade in the class would be a C.  This is definitely NOT
grading on a curve.
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