<p>Jefflaw’s post, while it MAY have been true a LONG time ago, it is NOT true today. I felt the responsibility to log on to clarify the bogus he spread on this thread.</p>
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<li>The instructor last semester showed us the exact grading distibution. It was really weighted in the B’s, ~20-25% A’s, and 20-25% C’s, with people who just don’t show up getting D’s and F’s. He then proceeded to tell us that these were determined by the ChemE department and will not change semester-to-semester.</li>
<li>Nobody would be as stupid to break beakers or ANYTHING in lab. Not only would think get you in A LOT of trouble if caught, it also isn’t worth it… Labs are worth only like 20-30% of your grade (spread across 10 labs) and they aren’t even graded on accuracy of results! I think that there was only one circumstance in which you lost 1 out of 20 points if your answer wasn’t within ~10% of actual.</li>
<li>My TA would tell us to fudge numbers if something weird happened or just include bogus results. Labs are meant for the experience, not getting the “perfect number.”</li>
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<p>While your experience may have been valid, you REALLY need to either not post that on the board or clarify MANY MANY MANY times that your experiences likely are dated.</p>
<p>Also, THERE IS NO GRADE DEFLATION. The medians are chem:B, FWS: ~B+, Math 1910/1920: B-, physics: B-, intro to engineering: B-, intro to cs: B.</p>
<p>THAT IS NOT GRADE DEFLATION! What do people expect for intro classes? A median of an A-? haha… be thankful that you aren’t in Gtech’s or Cal’s intro classes that are sometimes curved to a C+…</p>