Quote Originally Posted by Disifer View Post
Yeah except in the real world and in SE's, the teacher really doesn't give a fuck if you passed or failed the test, regardless of the situation. Both feel their job is done and they go home to their husband/wife while the boy cries as his father is belting his ass. And his outcome had nothing to do with his other classmates. To think that scenario ever played out in the real world, it's the same as all the kids competing in a competition get a medal. it rarely happens except for special olympics so question is, how far down this rabbit hole you wanna go?
You never took curved exams in university, did you?

The funny thing is I've been "That guy" who gets a 98 on an exam while the class average is 45. Not through cheating, mind you, but it's certainly fucked plenty of people over as many profs in engineering classes will only curve to bring the highest grade to a 100. This means the class average of 45 was raised to a class average of 47 because one person managed to get a 98 on the exam.

If you don't understand why curving exams at the university level is important, well then you're probably either too young to know better or too disillusioned to care.