what does it mean when a professor grades on a curve
Grading on a curve In education, marking on a curve (BE) or grading on a curve (AE) (also referred to as curved grading, bell curving, or using grading curves) is a method of assigning grades designed to yield a normal distribution (also called the Gaussian distribution) among the students in a class.[1] The term "curve" refers to the bell curve, the graphical representation of the probability density of the normal distribution, but this method does not necessarily use any specific frequency distribution.