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| ▲ | ewild 6 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| It's an incredibly privileged Pov to say it isn't a contest. These kids entire futures are impacted by these scores. |
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| ▲ | wrs 6 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Well, not once the scores become meaningless because everyone assumes they cheated. | |
| ▲ | ndriscoll 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Ivy League kids tend to not be facing some extreme economic precarity. In fact a decent number of them likely have enough family wealth to not need to work a day in their lives. The others are unlikely to face too much trouble over a few Bs at Brown. |
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| ▲ | anigbrowl 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Yes they are, that's what 'graded on a curve' means. It's common in the US to give students a percentile or Z-score or T-score rather than the raw score for the examination. This was a source of massive frustration to me when I first encountered because I had no way of self-reviewing my exam performance to guess which questions I might have gotten wrong. |
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| ▲ | none2585 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| I did not go to an Ivy League but many of my classes at an alright school were graded on a curve and so C was average, B/D was one standard deviation above/below, and A/F was two. |
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| ▲ | em-bee 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| if they are graded on a curve then they are competing against each other. |
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| ▲ | 1270018080 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| > Are those exams a contest? Yes |
