Why do our results need to "fit the curve"?

Prodigious · 05-03-2013 9:17pm #1

This infuriates me every time it comes up.
There can only be a certain number of A's, B's etc. If you're borderline 85%, they'll bring you down. If you're 35%, they'll go back and mark you easier to bring you up. (In particular with project maths).

Why do they feel the need to manipulate the results?
Why can't we have an honest, consistent result system and cut the bs?

Glee_GG · 05-03-2013 9:32pm

I think mainly its because exams one year can't be seen as having been 'easier' than a previous year so results have to be kept consistent or something along those lines,

Anita Blow · 05-03-2013 9:34pm

Glee GG said it.
It's so a LC one year isn't considered any more valuable than the LC of another year.

0mega · 05-03-2013 9:47pm

Just get your exams rechecked and then if you got 85% and they brought you down to a B1, you'll go up to an A2.

That's why it's important to go through your scripts! We can't trust the SEC not to be robbing us of marks

Prodigious · 05-03-2013 9:51pm

Bit late though if you don't get your course.

MickFleetwood · 05-03-2013 9:56pm

Those evil bastards are ****ing with us.

Peregrine · 05-03-2013 10:04pm

I hate that too..I wanna get what I actually got, not some made up grade to fit in one of these:

MickFleetwood · 05-03-2013 10:12pm

It also affects exam difficulty. My JC Maths exam was markedly more difficult than the past two or three that I'd done in class.

MickFleetwood · 05-03-2013 10:30pm

I think you should sit an exam, get your result and that's it. **** all this bull****.

Why do our results need to "fit the curve"?

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