How are classes curved in college?

geraniol
Thu, 01 Mar 2018 05:09:22 +0000

You won’t know until the end of the course since he’s curving the overall grades. There are a lot of ways to curve, but basically, you take the whole class at the end of the course, and rank from top to bottom, then split into pools for A,A-,B+,B, etc. and the majority chunk of the class is whatever you’re ‘curving to’ be it a B or C or whatever the professor wants.

The actual procedure is more complicated, and depends on how much you want to standardize the overall class performance… You’re doing a lot better than average, so you probably shouldn’t worry too much about it.