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Pastimes : Don't Ask Rambi
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To: greenspirit who wrote (16420)1/11/1999 11:22:00 PM
From: Jacques Chitte  Read Replies (1) of 71178
 
Where I went to school we were not graded on a curve. Sometimes the whole class did great. Sometimes we all suuuucked.
When I went to college, I found out about grading on a curve. Let's say I was taken aback. (Then I totally dug it - because it stacked the deck in my favor.) The practice strikes me as corrupt - there is no way to REALLY tell the masters from the wannabees.
I have mixed feelings about the SAT. On the one hand - it's not a curve. Your score reflects how much you were able to answer correctly. (Not how much you know. I talked to a lot of folks who knew the material but choked in the test hall. This is part of it: performance under pressure. Real life, baby.)
On the other hand - the test can be tweaked without cheating. I took the PSAT "cold" and I stunk. I had never seen the format before. So for the SAT I bought one of those thick paperback "SAT Prep" guides and for a week I LIVED it. I became familiar with the format. I did quite well in the SAT - once I knew the peculiar idiom or syntax of the test.

I favor grades given on percent scored. I do not like "correcting" for how the group did. THe relative scores already will tell you who's best. But the absolute score will contain a piece of info lost on a curve.
Who is actually good.
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