odd grading?
 

So according to the class website, I did better than 90% of the class on the first test in my anatomy & physiology class... but it's still a C...

Anyone else encountering odd grading systems?

I scored in the top 5% of an organic chemistry class and got a C- on that exam.

-Rudey
--Chicago was known for it's stupid anti-grade inflation policy

Anti-Grade Inflation is all the rage right now. It's doing nothing more than making many good students look stubstandard.

The average grade over the past 5 years in one of my econ classes has been a FORTY FIVE. I don't care how much you hate grade inflation, that's just obscene.

Yep. My school did that a lot, meaning we all get screwed over on grad school applications. I mean, how do you explain to an admissions board that really, you can do grad school level work, and that it's just that your school marks harder than most.

Hmmm... seen it up here for a while... it's been a policy of the University of Toronto that student marks for a class should average out to around a 65%... Professors even have to explain themselves and their marking if there are "too many" high grades (say about 1/3rd of the class above a 70).

Might explain why the Grad school application requires only a 3.0 for UofT students...

Yay! grading system for the math course I'm in is screwy right now, so when I checked my grade on day 3 of the semester this is what I get:

Scores:
Overall: 125.0% = A

Our school has straight A, B, C, D, F.... there is no such thing as a + or - ! It has worked for me more times than against me thought so I like it.

Baylor has this same system. Some departments (like the religion department I know for sure) say you have to make a 94 before you can get an A. (and an 84 is a B, 83=C+, etc). It stinks when you apply to a graduate/law/medical school because they turn all those +s into regular Bs or Cs, so your GPA is lowered.

Texas A&M had plain old A, B, C, D, F- I didn't really care for this because there were SOOO many times I scored an 88 or 89 in a class and all I could do was go GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!

However, I love law school here at Howard, we just get numbers. During the first year the curve is averaged to 81-83, during the second and third years it is 83-85. I like this alot better, although its considered a "low" curve for law school.