Do all professors curve grades?

Many professors curve their exam in some way to alter the grade distributions. Some professors think this isn’t necessary until the end of the semester and “curve” by altering cutoffs rather than adjusting final averages. Sometimes you, as a student, deserve the grade you got.

Do you think many teachers actually grade on the curve Why?

Most of the time, grading on a curve boosts the students’ grades by moving their actual scores up a few notches, perhaps increasing the letter grade. Some teachers use curves to adjust the scores received in exams, whereas other teachers prefer to adjust what letter grades are assigned to the actual scores.

How often do professors deduct grade for late assignments?

Steven D. Krause, professor of English at Eastern Michigan University, says he used to be stickler for deadlines and attendance. He deducted letter grades for assignments every 72 hours that they were late and failed students who didn’t contribute to virtual class discussions.

Do professors Really Want you to come to class?

Professors really want you to come to class. They want you to learn the material, and, more important, they feel really cruddy when only 10 students shown up the day before spring break. (Hey, they’d like to be off skiing, too.)

How are professors handling pass-fails?

Beyond pass-fail policies, which are generally adopted at the institutional level, individual professors are cutting nonessential course content, moving deadlines to the end of the term, dropping low assignment grades and grading leniently overall.

Why don’t professors teach service courses anymore?

Especially at large state universities, where the student-faculty ratio is approaching 20 to 1, professors can’t be bothered to teach the so-called “service” courses—you know, those humongous intro courses where the only thing being serviced is the mindless distribution (or gen ed or lower-division) requirements.