<p>I can’t speak for all majors, but especially engineering…
This is what is done… for a given question a slight error or a stupid mistake would ususally cost you the bulk of the points of the question. Even when one shows complete understanding of the material yet gets a wrong answer or through a wrong method a lot of points are taken off… Unreasonably. Hence pushing those people who aren’t perfect test takers to the wrong side of the curve. Secondly, the grades are curved towards the median which is always significantly higher than the mean. This is because the median doesn;t take into account the many scores that are in the teens and in the single digits. Another example… Introductory General Chemistry which most engineers and premeds take is ridiculously competitive. What the department does is they don’t accept AP credit and college credit for the course. So essentially people of all kinds of different levels are taking the same class. So I was competing against a student whose parents are both chemists and who’s been eating living and breathing chemistry his whole life. And me, someone who had basic introductory chemistry and horrible teachers at that. Now i think something is wrong here.
My main point is this, since graduates from all kinds of universities are competing for the same jobs, shouldn’t we have a standardized system of grading or at least somewhat equal? Perhaps administrating standardized tests like… like is done is Junior High and High School</p>