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From: gll2139@ritcv.UUCP (Gerard L. Lanois)
Newsgroups: comp.edu,rec.humor.d
Subject: Re: cruelty to undergrads
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Date: 16 Mar 88 21:02:06 GMT
References: <18618@topaz.rutgers.edu> <401@lscvax.UUCP> <3530@medusa.cs.purdue.edu> <3766@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU>
Reply-To: gll2139@ritcv.UUCP (Gerard L. Lanois)
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In article <3766@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> jfc@athena.mit.edu (John F Carr) writes:
>In article <3530@medusa.cs.purdue.edu> tlh@cs.purdue.EDU (Thomas L. Hausmann) writes:
>
>>But seriously, when someone gives a satisfactory definition of just
>>what they mean by a curve, then we can *really* know what it is to
>>grade on a curve.
>
>The universal definition of a curve by students is, "a method of grading
>which gives me a grade higher than I deserve or would have otherwise 
>been able to get  (as long as we keep Joe Nerd from messing up the curve
>by getting too good a grade)."

And as long as we talk Joe Dunce out of dropping the class, so that
he holds up the _low_ end of the curve.
Very effective.  Not that I've ever done this before (Ahem).


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