Johns Hopkins students find a loophole to curved grading

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DocZaius
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Johns Hopkins students find a loophole to curved grading

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http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2013 ... cy-and-get
As the semester ended in December, students in Fröhlich’s "Intermediate Programming", "Computer Science Fundamentals," and "Introduction to Programming for Scientists and Engineers" classes decided to test the limits of the policy, and collectively planned to boycott the final. Because they all did, a zero was the highest score in each of the three classes, which, by the rules of Fröhlich’s curve, meant every student received an A.
This would never work in law school - law students are assholes.
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Johns Hopkins students find a loophole to curved grading

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Yeeaaah....Im guessing nine times out of ten that wouldn't work very well at all. And, honestly, it shouldn't have worked in that situation. The risks they took to game the system were risks I don't know very many serious students would have taken. Its a form of academic dishonesty and should have resulted in them getting an F on their finals and failing the course.
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Johns Hopkins students find a loophole to curved grading

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I'm surprised one asshole didn't walk into the exam unannounced answer one question correctly and leave. He gets the A and the rest of them Cs?
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