Class has a 30% pass rate

They want to know who truly understands the material.

I have a friend who got a B average with a 10% on every test. It's just plain dumb.

You Burgers have a funny system. In EU it's either swim or sink. No curves - if 80%-100% of the class fails, so be it. Rarely the prof. drops the necessary % to pass from 60% to 50% but that's it.

But stories like 10% for a B? 43% for an A?
Holy shit.

They do the "average" get's a C thing until you get tenured professors in STEM who don't give a fuck.

O-Chem courses that I TA'd for would have class averages of 35% or so, 75% was a C.

Yeah nigga, it sure says something about lecture when the entire class fails a test. Must mean they're all really dumb, or the most common explanation, that the prof sucks at lecturing.

That an entire class is failing is not happening very often. But it happens. Mostly weed-out classes or very difficult exam questions nobody expected.

>prof sucks at lecturing
>dumb students realize they aren't learning
>they don't understand the material, don't do anything about it
>they fail the midterm
>they still don't understand the material, they still don't do anything at all about it
>most of them fail
>WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
git gud or git out

I had a professor like that this semester, except I had a decent understanding of the material, but he decided to post ~30hours worth of homework to do 5 days before finals started because he's senile and apparently forgot about it for more than half the semester despite us asking him if he was going to give us homework for the things we were covering.
I'm actually going to lodge a complaint against him because being forced to either do that work or fail his class left me no time to study for a final in another class that I had today that was worth half of the total grade, so I may have just failed that instead.

>or the most common explanation, that the prof sucks at lecturing.
this isn't why at all. If yuropoors had American-level tests but crap professors, at least some students would learn on their own and get solid grades.
They just give their students tests that are a step short of impossible to get 90-100 on and think this is a better method of teaching for some stupid reason.

What class was this? Holy shit.