Schools with a curve

[beckhunter116]

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So I happened to come across a thread that made me come here to see what you all know about this. (The thread was under clinical rotations, but can apply to any portion of med school.) There have been threads about this in the pre-MD section.

Does anyone know if any/which ones of DO schools that grade on a curve? The example on the original thread was that a student got an 85 but b/c the class average was high that 85 was a C.

I am very unfamiliar with this type of grading. At my undergraduate/PB institute the scale was 90-100/A, 80-89/B ect. no matter if everyone got A's or F's.

Any information on this would be greatly appreciated!!! Thanks.

 

[MossPoh]

Most schools don't curve. If they happy to do anything they MIGHT adjust the score in some way if there were some bad questions and the class all did horrendously. A true bell curve is pretty rare now and I would other aspects of that story, especially if it was during clinical rotations where the only part that has a percentage would probably be the shelf exam.

 

[TexasTriathlete]

Probably will be up to each individual professor/course director. But most of these people have been doing this for a while, and they know how hard their tests are, and how hard they should be.

And I'd guess if they made an exam too easy, and everyone did really well, they'd just make the next one too hard, to balance it out. But that's just a guess.

 

[hokiedo2012]

VCOM curves, we're a "B machine". Now, most of our classes haven't needed to so far since the average was pretty high, but I expect that will change for this block, Neuromuscular.

Most schools don't curve. If they happy to do anything they MIGHT adjust the score in some way if there were some bad questions and the class all did horrendously. A true bell curve is pretty rare now and I would other aspects of that story, especially if it was during clinical rotations where the only part that has a percentage would probably be the shelf exam.