Hello
So, I was just wondering because I realised that I never figured it out before...does USYD grade on a curve?
Or is it maybe dependent on what faculty/course/unit it is?
So far all I could find on the website was an indicator of what grade equates to what band, like and 87% would be an HD.
I'm mostly curious because for one particular education unit, the vast majority of people seemed to really struggle with one particular assessment. Granted we haven't gotten grades back for it yet (only handed it in on Friday) but it's the first assessment for the unit and it was worth 50%. We had a little under 3 weeks to complete it and if my tutorial class was anything to go by, everyone seems really confused about how to complete it. I know other people who weren't in the same tutorial as me who also said that they were feeling like they still didn't quite understand how to do it properly, so it's unlikely that it was just all the people in my tute.
Assuming the worst, that the vast majority of students in a unit all do really badly in an assessment (and I'm talking more about things like they misunderstood an ambiguous question, not that they clearly know nothing), would the markers have to take this into consideration? Or is it just that we're all pretty much in trouble and our final grades and WAM are going to really suffer for it?
Thanks
So, I was just wondering because I realised that I never figured it out before...does USYD grade on a curve?
Or is it maybe dependent on what faculty/course/unit it is?
So far all I could find on the website was an indicator of what grade equates to what band, like and 87% would be an HD.
I'm mostly curious because for one particular education unit, the vast majority of people seemed to really struggle with one particular assessment. Granted we haven't gotten grades back for it yet (only handed it in on Friday) but it's the first assessment for the unit and it was worth 50%. We had a little under 3 weeks to complete it and if my tutorial class was anything to go by, everyone seems really confused about how to complete it. I know other people who weren't in the same tutorial as me who also said that they were feeling like they still didn't quite understand how to do it properly, so it's unlikely that it was just all the people in my tute.
Assuming the worst, that the vast majority of students in a unit all do really badly in an assessment (and I'm talking more about things like they misunderstood an ambiguous question, not that they clearly know nothing), would the markers have to take this into consideration? Or is it just that we're all pretty much in trouble and our final grades and WAM are going to really suffer for it?
Thanks