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Originally Posted by Ustwo
In a class of 10 I agree.
In a class of 200+ I tend to disagree. The sample size is big enough there to even the distribution.
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Twice in one day I have agreed with Ustwo.
Graduate classes tend to be very small, so applying a curve grading system to them is artificial at best.
Intro undergraduate classes held 300 or more students at Cal. Even so, I prefer specific standards of performance to determine a grade, rather than using a bell curve. Cal wasn't San Jose, the "party" school. The "curve" was already skewed to the right.