eli5: How do classes that mark on a curve work?
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If I am understanding you’re question correctly this is how a curve works:
Let’s say the highest score you can get on an exam or in a class is 100%. So the scores ranges from 0-100. Based off that let’s say that 60% or 60 out of 100 is the lowest passing score.
Now, after the class or exam is over lets say the highest score in the class was 90% or 90 out of 100. That 90 becomes the new 100 or highest score possible. That would shift everything by roughly a 10 point curve. I say roughly because the numbers won’t be perfectly by 10 when calculating percentages. Now making the lowest passing score 50% or 50 out of 90.
So if the test was out of 100 and you scored and 80% that would be a B, but if the curve brought the points down to 90; You’d now have 80 out of 90 which is 88% instead of the original 80%.
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