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Originally Posted by neo o  Good marks are easy to get. At 'top tier' universities law faculties throw around distinctions and high distinctions like Kevin Rudd throws around stimulus money. The University of Sydney has a rule that as a MINIMUM 40% of students must get high distinctions and distinctions combined. Of course, if you're unfortunate enough to enrol in a university with standards, you may not get high distinctions at all (like MAQ) or there may be a rule that a maximum of only 15% of students can get high distinctions and distinctions combined (like ANU). Even at those universities through, credits are easy to maintain. |
That's a bit of an exaggeration. More like 40% of students get CREDITS. I'd say the most common grade (at any law school) would be a credit. There's no way 40% of students in a subject would get D's/HD's - maybe in later year law electives, but not for core subjects.
I've found that when grade distributions are put up for assigments/exams it usually follows a bell curve (even though unis love to say there's no scaling) and that D's and HD's are usually the smallest percentage...