No, a curve guarantees the grade distribution meets a particular curve (generally a bell curve) which can easily result in lower grades being farther from higher grades than without the curve. What you're talking about sounds like scaling so everyone gets a better grade.
Ok, well maybe the curve is ok then, but the grading of the test was bullshit. If one little mistake was made on a problem, over half the points were taken off. The professor admitted the grading was bad, and said he had a grad student do it.
To fix the bad grading, he added the curve, but that didn't really fix the issue, as it ended up being if you got one problem completely correct, you got a great grade, but if you made small mistakes on all 3 problems, you failed.
Yeah, what you might be thinking of is a skew, a curve is where you set the average to a particular score and then the rest of the scores are determined by math and the standard deviation of the scores. Every class here at UW is graded on a curve, it doesn’t really matter how you do in absolute terms, just how far ahead of most people you are
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