Grade Deflation/Inflation or the lack thereof

bernie2012
Sat, 03 Apr 2010 13:55:19 +0000

First of all, that is strictly class/professor dependent. However, I must say that most tough sciences, if curved, are curved up. The amount depends on how much the prof. thinks you deserve. There are some classes that straight up cap the number As. In NBB 301 for example, one professor caps As at 10%, even if those 10% got 98s, if you get a 97, you get an A-. In Advanced Inorganic, there was a bell-curve thing going on, and if too many people got As, then he’d cancel any type of curve. As for intro. science courses, curving is rare, and only occurs in extreme cases.