http://intertribal.livejournal.com/ ([identity profile] intertribal.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] intertribal 2009-01-07 06:12 am (UTC)

I'm not sure if it's that severe at Columbia. It's more like... not enough people score within the 93-100 range to make a perfect bell curve, so they shift it up. They also don't like to score below a C, and even that is rare, I think. B's are average; after that there's a lot of A-'s. But if they didn't curve the grades some then way too few people would get A's to make a curve, and Columbia's obsessed with curves.

i think the motivation to learn does come from grades a lot of times here... only marginally for me, and I tend to feel better in classes where I'm not trying just because I have to take the class for a requirement and I want to do well in it. Wow, that's crazy (about revealing grades only if you ask for them). But maybe I just can't imagine not wanting to know a grade, ha ha.

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