Lowest class average on an exam that you've ever seen?

[M51]

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The test averages in my organic chemistry class hovered around 45-55%. Lowest grades were always <10%, highest were usually >90%. There was a lot of deviation.


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[circulus vitios]

My final exam had an average in the mid 60's even though I thought it was pretty easy. I had to scale it up because it's bad form to give everyone C's. When even my BEST students didn't crack an 85, I knew something was off. However, there were a lot of low/middle B's.

Nothing annoyed me more than a professor saying an exam was easy. "Come on guys, this is easy," my general chemistry professor would say. I wonder why, it's not like you have a PhD in physical chemistry and you've been teaching this course for 20 years.

 

[premed071291]

I got a 54 on a microbiology final and got a A+. Don't know the average but it must have been pretty low.

 

[Lil Mick]

~20 on one of the PChem exams. Quantitative analysis was similar... Nice curves for those of us with 50's, though! There was also a linear algebra one that was around a 40 with not as much of a curve.

 

[thesauce]

I got a 54 on a microbiology final and got a A+. Don't know the average but it must have been pretty low.

How exactly does this work? What schools give out A+? What % do you usually have to get to get one (obviously this is variable as illustrated by your example). What GPA does an A+ correlate with?

 

[NorthernLights1]

~20% on a wireless communications exam. 50% was typical for most electrical engineering classes at my school, but there's always a sadistic professor or two 🙂