BU Grade Deflation is Very Real

NCPremed
Thu, 20 Jan 2011 11:42:46 +0000

I think people aren’t looking at it correctly. Its not grade deflation, its the fact that they have to curve the class in the first place.

I agree that sometimes the class will be difficult due to the content or just the workload. But something is wrong when EVERY YEAR, the class gets curved around the same mean scores. For CH109, our teacher told us the curves for previous years. Classes shouldn’t be curved, tests should be curved.

Curving shouldn’t be based on class performance, in reality curving is a safety for students in case a test wasn’t written correctly or questions weren’t similar to what was covered in class. BU needs better teachers, more support for classes like the premed classes, and all around needs to restructure its academic environment. If they listened to students, they would reach top 20 school ratings within 5 years.