Does Veeky Forums like Bellcurve grading?

the average should be targeted to 30 or so. nobody cares about the differences between failing terribly and failling horrendously, but we do care about the differences between doing well and doing amazing in a course. if the average is 30, that gives us the majority of the scale to separate differences in the most intelligent

Bell curve grading just means you go to a low tier university with a hard ass professor.

Ivys all have grade inflation because administrations just got tired of privileged students whining.

>career already fucked because low tier uni
>professor has an ego complex and ass fucks me even by bell curve grading
>students at top tier unis don't have to deal with this shit because their professors are well paid and have fruitful research

why is this even a thing

grade inflation is the result of poorly applied grading curves

the standard 70/80/90-C/B/A system is also a grading curve

there's nothing about grading curves that inherently leads to grade inflation

I like bell curves so long as the professor doesn't average down. For example, if the average on a test is 85%, then rounding that down to a C instead of letting it be a proper B is frustrating as fuck since you essentially have no margins of error.

Best grading scale is a bell curve with the caveat that if you score a

>get a 50
>automatic A

Sounds autistic and unfair. Can someone explain the reason behind it?

Some professors have this notion that "their class is only for serious students", so to them, a 100% pass rate would mean they are doing their job wrong.

The teacher makes a judgement call about what the minimum level of mastery they expect from students is. That level of performance is then assigned a D or a C (depending on your institution's policies). They then assume that grades will tend to follow something somewhat like a normal distribution with standard deviation of about ten points, so as a shortcut they set the boundaries between grade bins as roughly standard deviation marks away from the mean.

The most common implementation is that the minimal level of mastery of material tends to be associated with an overall score of 70-75 percent in a course. A B is then 80-85, A is 90-95, and D is 60-65. In this model, a grade of A represents an enormously high score relative to the mean - you scored about two standard deviations higher than the rest of the class.

However, sometimes a professor decides that their material is harder than normal, and minimal level of mastery is actually associated with a different grade. They might decide that minimal mastery is associated with an overall score of 50, or 80. The bins are adjusted accordingly.

wow it's almost as if engineers aren't actually that smart