Generally people take more than one classIWantT6 wrote:I'm confused as to how this works into class rank. Let's say there are 5 sections. Does each section have its own curve? If so, how is rank determined? If the top student in each section got an A, how would it be determined who is #1 v. #5?
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Nagster5 wrote:Generally people take more than one classIWantT6 wrote:I'm confused as to how this works into class rank. Let's say there are 5 sections. Does each section have its own curve? If so, how is rank determined? If the top student in each section got an A, how would it be determined who is #1 v. #5?
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Cute, but their question actually makes more sense than that.Nagster5 wrote:Generally people take more than one classIWantT6 wrote:I'm confused as to how this works into class rank. Let's say there are 5 sections. Does each section have its own curve? If so, how is rank determined? If the top student in each section got an A, how would it be determined who is #1 v. #5?
If I'm at a school with five sections, and each section takes the same core classes (some with different teachers, etc.), how does the overall class curve work out? Are class grades curved to the section and are all the data aggregated into a larger class curve? Or is there just a class-wide curve?
People taking more than one class is irrelevant if the top students in each section are all getting A's in each of their classes.
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Re: Explain to a 0L how the law school curve works?
Each section is graded independently, but they all apply the same curve (10% As, 20% A-s, etc.) for the individual section.IWantT6 wrote:I'm confused as to how this works into class rank. Let's say there are 5 sections. Does each section have its own curve? If so, how is rank determined? If the top student in each section got an A, how would it be determined who is #1 v. #5?
with the curve I just gave, let's say there's 100 kids in each section, and let's say 10 people in each section got an A in all their classes, then getting all As would put you in the top 10%
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Obviously you didn't read the question. In that scenario, the most important question is: "who would be number 1?"DCfilterDC wrote:Each section is graded independently, but they all apply the same curve (10% As, 20% A-s, etc.) for the individual section.IWantT6 wrote:I'm confused as to how this works into class rank. Let's say there are 5 sections. Does each section have its own curve? If so, how is rank determined? If the top student in each section got an A, how would it be determined who is #1 v. #5?
with the curve I just gave, let's say there's 100 kids in each section, and let's say 10 people in each section got an A in all their classes, then getting all As would put you in the top 10%
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- IWantT6
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Re: Explain to a 0L how the law school curve works?
Exactly.cavalier1138 wrote:Cute, but their question actually makes more sense than that.Nagster5 wrote:Generally people take more than one classIWantT6 wrote:I'm confused as to how this works into class rank. Let's say there are 5 sections. Does each section have its own curve? If so, how is rank determined? If the top student in each section got an A, how would it be determined who is #1 v. #5?
If I'm at a school with five sections, and each section takes the same core classes (some with different teachers, etc.), how does the overall class curve work out? Are class grades curved to the section and are all the data aggregated into a larger class curve? Or is there just a class-wide curve?
People taking more than one class is irrelevant if the top students in each section are all getting A's in each of their classes.
+1lymenheimer wrote:Obviously you didn't read the question. In that scenario, the most important question is: "who would be number 1?"DCfilterDC wrote:Each section is graded independently, but they all apply the same curve (10% As, 20% A-s, etc.) for the individual section.IWantT6 wrote:I'm confused as to how this works into class rank. Let's say there are 5 sections. Does each section have its own curve? If so, how is rank determined? If the top student in each section got an A, how would it be determined who is #1 v. #5?
with the curve I just gave, let's say there's 100 kids in each section, and let's say 10 people in each section got an A in all their classes, then getting all As would put you in the top 10%
So I'm guessing that there is no way to differentiate between 1-5 if everyone has all A's, you would just be classified as top X%?
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At least at the schools I know, if you are tied then you do it like law school rankings. So if the first three people are tied, they are all listed as #1. Then the 4th person is 4. This is also a huge assumption that the same people will get universally the same grade in each class. There's definitely a chance, but the odds of this happening is lower than 0Ls tend to think.IWantT6 wrote:Exactly.cavalier1138 wrote:Cute, but their question actually makes more sense than that.Nagster5 wrote:Generally people take more than one classIWantT6 wrote:I'm confused as to how this works into class rank. Let's say there are 5 sections. Does each section have its own curve? If so, how is rank determined? If the top student in each section got an A, how would it be determined who is #1 v. #5?
If I'm at a school with five sections, and each section takes the same core classes (some with different teachers, etc.), how does the overall class curve work out? Are class grades curved to the section and are all the data aggregated into a larger class curve? Or is there just a class-wide curve?
People taking more than one class is irrelevant if the top students in each section are all getting A's in each of their classes.
+1lymenheimer wrote:Obviously you didn't read the question. In that scenario, the most important question is: "who would be number 1?"DCfilterDC wrote:Each section is graded independently, but they all apply the same curve (10% As, 20% A-s, etc.) for the individual section.IWantT6 wrote:I'm confused as to how this works into class rank. Let's say there are 5 sections. Does each section have its own curve? If so, how is rank determined? If the top student in each section got an A, how would it be determined who is #1 v. #5?
with the curve I just gave, let's say there's 100 kids in each section, and let's say 10 people in each section got an A in all their classes, then getting all As would put you in the top 10%
So I'm guessing that there is no way to differentiate between 1-5 if everyone has all A's, you would just be classified as top X%?
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Re: Explain to a 0L how the law school curve works?
The person with the highest GPA is #1
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Re: Explain to a 0L how the law school curve works?
Exactly this. There is enough randomness in people's grades for there to not be many ties, but it definitely happens (amusingly, I was exactly tied for GPA with another student after my first year).KD35 wrote:At least at the schools I know, if you are tied then you do it like law school rankings. So if the first three people are tied, they are all listed as #1. Then the 4th person is 4. This is also a huge assumption that the same people will get universally the same grade in each class. There's definitely a chance, but the odds of this happening is lower than 0Ls tend to think.