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[-] yetAnotherUser@feddit.de 2 points 11 months ago

Is that percentage of points or just an arbitrary grade scale?

Because that's quite funny compared to the (non-US) university I attend where you pass the difficult classes with "just" 33% of points.

[-] atomicorange@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago

Percentage of points. So if you get half of the questions wrong on a test, you fail. In some cases, teachers will grade “on a curve”, meaning they normalize the class scores. My organic chem teacher in college liked to make extremely difficult tests, so you’d get 40% or something awful like that and it would turn out that nobody in the class scored over 50% so you actually got an A.

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