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b_b  ·  4298 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: How to Game a Grading Curve

From experience, I can say that the first time you give a test its a bit of a craps shoot. Every subsequent semester you have a pretty good idea of how the class will do. Students, in the aggregate, don't generally change from one semester to the next.