I have seen both, B sucks a lot more
pretty much every curve i’ve seen has been to the effect of “the highest scorer gets a perfect score and everyone gets their points bumped up by the number of points they missed to reflect this”
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This has become less popular cuz if its a 200 person class and 1 person gets perfect score and next person has a 75%, everyone is boned
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A
math department here does B. which had the funny consequence of me getting a whopping 0.6 back on my math exam. with a 12% back curve. although considering class average was 70 post-curve it kiiinda makes sense? but also that’s only, like, 4ish points back on average per student which seems low.
dunno why they have problems bumping ppl above 100 considering tons of extra credit is given out just for attending class
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there’s also bell curving it but I think that unanimously kind of sucks
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i’ve had teachers who allowed revisions; if you did them your score would become
10 * sqrt(original_score)
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thats fun
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i vividly remember my hs chemistry teacher making the first 20 point quiz of the year a score of 20 - (number of questions missed)^2. and then the rest of the class was incredibly easy
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i think i’ve found the worst one
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evil curve
he really wanted us to know polyatomic ions
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I remember an english teacher in high school giving 25 percentage points of extra credit
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(she probably did not realize this until the marking quarter ended)
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my high school bio teacher did “the highest scorer gets a perfect score and the denominator of everyone’s score is adjusted to reflect this,” which is kind of like the thing you just said but less flat (it also means that you can’t pass the test with a 0 no matter how badly your classmates did)
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I have not taken a single class with a single curved anything yet
They don’t do curves here. At least not in any of the departments I take classes in
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I think some CS stuff is curved?
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I hate getting a -380 on quizzes
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curves are propaganda psyops aimed to reduce the competence of the new generation of workers by giving them undeserved points thus having them wrongly think they’re more capable than they are
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