Does Duke do grade deflation?

SBR
Fri, 02 Apr 2010 21:35:41 +0000

The “downward part of the bell curve” part doesn’t make any sense. A bell curve will always have 50% lower than the median and 50% higher than the median. If the median was the lowest score, then the bell curve is definitely epic fail.

What reticulum is trying to say is that usually the class grades result in grade cutoffs being adjusted downwards so that professors can actually give A’s and B’s. Instead of all C’s, D’s, and F’s.

I’ve run into the occasional class where an A is 95+ but that’s extremely rare. Usually a curve leads to good news not bad.