<p>Depends on the professor. Some professors curve, some don’t. They will tell you on the syllabus. For example, Dr. Famula (who teaches Animal Science 1) doesn’t curve, and neither do professors teaching the Physics 7 series. Also, an 80% is always a B no matter what the curve is anyway, at least in my experience. A lot of my professors set the curve to a C+/B-, and in many of classes that were curved, the averages were usually somewhere as low as 40% (my O-Chem class) to as high as 70% (my NPB 101 class). I have never seen a curved class where half the class got an 80% or better. Usually those classes (in which a majority of students do well) tend to be on a straight-scale (again, that’s just from my experience from the classes I’ve taken). </p>
<p>Like I said, the placement tests are done online. So yes you can take it at your house. Those dates are when you can take the test online; the test won’t be available to take on any other dates.</p>