Comments | floraldance: Grading system; dance.

floraldance

Grading system; dance.

Jan 23, 2009 00:45

The grading system here at Penn (in particular, at Wharton. Though i'm just a happy College kid, not one of them Whartonites) simply does not make sense. In fact it goes against the principles of excellence. In the sense that excellence should be individual - it should be a measure of the individual’s ability, not a comparison of one’s relative ( Read more... )

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capricity January 23 2009, 07:29:23 UTC

Classes at Cal are curved too, especially the Business ones! hmm maybe it's the same at all colleges.

I never got to ask you what your major is, qt! Are you still undecided?

floraldance January 25 2009, 04:54:38 UTC

I wanna major in Psych and minor in French! :) you?

capricity January 30 2009, 01:55:31 UTC

Econs with econ history focus! :D
You sound like you're having a blast over there. I can see how Psych can help you in the army lol

frankchn January 23 2009, 07:45:40 UTC

At Stanford it is up to the individual professor's discretion but Princeton curves across all its classes as well.

jez_hex January 23 2009, 12:31:30 UTC

but your grades influence your future economic value, and so the scarcity of A-grades stem from the scarcity of resources :P

that said, there is still the question of whether the grades you get after bell-curving reflect real differences in skill, or whether random fluctuations exert too much influence. the best solution is to set harder tests ^^

floraldance January 25 2009, 04:57:21 UTC

haha yeah. The main contention that students (at Penn, especially Wharton) have is that the curving often leads to cutthroat competition. Not so much for College (of Arts and Sciences, where i'm studying in), but for Wharton.

haha economic value. that's another way of seeing it!

born_a_dreamer January 24 2009, 14:13:13 UTC

the grading system in nus law is also like that! and i kinda hate it. hahaha... sometimes they don't tell us the weightage of each question. i just got back my contract law paper and found out that (according to some ppl) the essay component (unfortunately, i spent the least time on this qn) has the highest weightage. :S it pulled my marks down by a lot...

u look kinda different with ur new hair! oh, happy new year in advance! :)

floraldance January 25 2009, 04:58:50 UTC

haha i'm still waiting for my hair to grow out, it's taking forever though i've not cut my hair for over 9 months!

studying law now? that's another really competitive field. Happy new year in advance to u too!