<p>Believe it or not, the Math classes in my college usually have a high average of 70s to 80s. We seldom have an average 60s.</p>
<p>I’m kind of wondering if my Anthropology Class is like that. I don’t know if my work is really good or if he’s just a really easy grader.</p>
<p>an average should be a 60?
what’s wrong with the world?</p>
<p>rocks for jocks, stars for stoners, clapping for credit, emails for females/clicks for chicks (compsci), physics for poets/fools, etc</p>
<p>I didn’t realise what bird course means… had to look it up. canadian slang, huh?</p>
<p>Philosophy</p>
<p>Is it bad that I look at an average of 60 and think that it’s a pretty high average? In most of my classes the average ranges from 30-50, and in some of them 70 is the highest grade of anyone in the class. 
Now that I think of it, I’m really not sure why they do it that way. In some of the classes like that your grade is determined by how far above or below the average you are, in others they just curve at the end, and in some they just fail most people. I had one class where the median grade on a quiz was zero and we were told that that’s how it should be because otherwise that would be grade inflation.
This is just science classes I’ve had though. The math classes seem a lot more sane about grading.
The easiest class I’ve taken in college was Intro to Women’s Studies, but it was also a very enjoyable class.</p>
<p>Probably Archaeology…it was interesting, though. The labs were fun. We chipped rocks to make stone tools lol.</p>
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<p>I mean 60%</p>
<p>So do I…</p>
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<p>Chandi, are those raw grades to be curved (in which case low averages aren’t all that uncommon, especially in the sciences), final grades that correspond to letter grades in the standard American grading system (where 59% is an F), or foreign grades? I’d be distressed if more than half of all grades assigned were Fs.</p>
<p>In most science classes here there isn’t a curve exactly, but the grading scale isn’t the standard one. For example in the class where the high grade on one test was a 67 and the average on every test was in the 30’s and 40’s, 55-60 is a C, 60-64 is a C+, 65-69 B-, 70-74 B, and so on… which still means that you’d need to be above average overall to pass, but not as bad as if it were the standard grading scale. Most of the science classes here use that grading scale, though some omit pluses and minuses.</p>
<p>It’s not uncommon here for about 40% of the class to get a D or an F.</p>
<p>^ Why would anyone who wants to take science classes go to your school?</p>
<p>Chandi probably goes to college in Canada. grading system there is very different, and 70%+ are very good grades.</p>
<p>Are D’s and F’s good grades up there too? He said 40% getting those grades is not uncommon.</p>
<p>I think like 10 people just got A+'s in my psych 101 class (including me)
the professor gave so much extra credit it was crazy</p>
<p>The physics class in my college ranges from 49% to 61% on average.</p>
<p>Here are a few “bird” courses at my college. Thankfully, I’ve stayed far away from the first two.</p>
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<li><p>Introduction to Humanities (the non-honors sequence), specifically with an older, tenured professor who doesn’t do anything but have his class watch movies. </p></li>
<li><p>Introduction to Creative Writing</p></li>
<li><p>Oral Communication Fundamentals</p></li>
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<p>No, I’m in Florida, and a C is the minimum grade needed to move on to the next class. I came here because I got a full scholarship and I haven’t gotten anything lower than a B- in a science class here (my science gpa is around 3.5). They aren’t all like that either, in some science classes like organic chem it’s more like 30% withdraw from the class, 10% fail, and 40% get C’s (orgo professor here doesn’t see any point in giving a D). A good portion of the general chemistry class withdraws as well. It’s classes like physical chemistry where you’ll get a much higher failure rate.</p>
<p>Physics is done differently and your grade in those classes is based on how many standard deviations above or below the average you are, so since the average is usually around 40 or 50 you’ll only really fail that if you consistently score below that.</p>