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		scotty79 on May 29, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: My students cheated... a lot > sharing a curve It's beyond me why is this even allowed. Are you grading results of your educational effort or are you organizing a beauty pageant? Not grading on a curve should be part of academic integrity standards.

bckr on May 29, 2022 [–]

In my experience it's to help more people pass. If the natural distribution has 70% as the average, no curve is applied. Above-average outliers (the occasional 100% scores) would be removed from the calculation.

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