How does grading on a curve work exactly?

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It wasn’t something that happened when I was in school and I’ve heard absolutely venomous descriptions of it, but no one seems to be able to tell me how it works exactly

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When I was in school it typically means using the highest grade as a measure for an A rather than an absolute value. So if the top scoring student got 90% of questions right, then a 90% would be the same as an uncurved 100% and it scales from there. Sometimes averages of the top few scores are used so that if one student scores extremely well it doesn’t skew the curve too much.

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