flamingalah

No offence taken, of course, there is a lot to criticise as well as to praise! Just pointing out that, at least, my institution has strict guidelines that see students generally fall into a middle ground of around 65~ so I suspect that we operate under a much different model to your university.

Interesting. I work at a top three university in Australia and the highest mark I gave to a student was around 86~ and there may have been only 2-4 other students who scored overall marks in the 80s. There was between 60-80 students in the course. Similar with another course of around 200; max 5-10 students with an overall mark in the 80s, I think there was one student with a 90. There's a strict departmental requirement for academics to justify their marks to avoid grade inflation, the ballpark figure is that on average the students should be achieving 65~ overall and higher than 68 becomes a flag for concern. I am assuming we are at different institutions as handing out 95s like candy is unheard of and the academics would be pulled in for a departmental review to justify why their students were being given such high marks. I'd say that you didn't attend my institution as these marks simply aren't handed out willy-nilly. Edit: Of course - you may be a brilliant student, do not let me undermine you for that but at my institution, your experience would absolutely not be the norm.

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