Need Advice on IHUM Courses

Senior0991
Tue, 24 May 2011 16:07:46 +0000

Eiswien:

IHUM tries to standardize grades as much as possible. This means (in theory) that all IHUMs have the same grade distributions, and grade distributions within each IHUM are normalized to account for grading discrepancies among TFs. I have no reason to believe that the former standardization (each IHUM has same grade distribution) is not implemented in practice. On the other hand, a report I read from 2007 suggests that IHUM has had trouble normalizing the grades within a particular IHUM. There didn’t seem to be a set strategy for normalizing the grades (just suggestions) and based on the report some TFs were unwilling to adjust their grades to reflect the desired distribution. I don’t know about anything more recent.

As far as grades go, most students I knew got in the B range. A-minuses are not uncommon. A good strategy to get an A is to pick an IHUM with more unmotivated students who collectively have less background on the subject.