Timeline for Why one must score 75 % just to pass the course
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| May 26, 2018 at 7:09 | comment | added | Niklas Rosencrantz | At the end, I scored 85 %. My friends didn't make it. | |
| Apr 26, 2018 at 1:07 | vote | accept | Niklas Rosencrantz | ||
| Mar 13, 2018 at 18:30 | comment | added | Dave L Renfro | This reminds me of the high school to college transition where (in North Carolina, during the 1970s) in high school you had to score at least 93% to get an A, but in college you only needed to score at least 90%. I seem to recall some people saying this was because college tests are harder . . . (Yes, but lowering from 93% to 90% didn't come anywhere near to closing the gap.) | |
| Mar 13, 2018 at 18:10 | comment | added | Henry | @DaveLRenfro: I would think so as well, but that hasn't been my experience. I once witnessed an online discussion where (high-school aged) students from different countries realized that their countries had different thresholds for A's. The were a lot of comments along the lines of "I would have gotten an A if only I'd lived in such-and-such country" or "wow, it must be so hard to get an A in your country if you need to get 90%", but no one pointed out that the exams might vary as well as the thresholds. | |
| Mar 13, 2018 at 17:25 | vote | accept | Niklas Rosencrantz | ||
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| Mar 13, 2018 at 17:01 | comment | added | Dave L Renfro | +1 for "it's meaningless to talk about the passing percentage in isolation", which one would think is too obvious to have to say, but maybe not. (I say "maybe not" because I was expecting to see something in the original question about why this specific 75% is so different from the other 50%'s, and didn't.) | |
| Mar 13, 2018 at 16:15 | history | answered | Henry | CC BY-SA 3.0 |