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Originally posted by TheEnforcer@Feb 9 2004, 01:11 PM
Hmm mid to low 70's were always D territory in any school I've ever been in. 69 and below were F's.
Not saying other schools, and occasional professors on their own, don't have lower scales. Just not that common in my experience.
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In the mid-1990s when I was there all grades were "on a curve". So pure numerical averages don't mean anything. Most Yale profs like to bomb the hell out of the students, giving them more material than they could likely master in a semester. This was true even in classes like foreign languages where you might be given 200 German vocab words to be learned overnight. Test tomorrow. (That happened to me my second week of class and I still remember it).
They also like to give super-nasty tests than no one will likely score an 80 or higher on. It was not uncommon for average tests scores to be in the 60s and 70s in physics and math classes.
The curve is inflated though so an average student would get low B's. You have to really fuck up to get a D or an F.