Hey fam, I've got an interesting subject with weird scaling.
So it's one of my second year elec subjects, and lots of ppl got lower marks than expected to different extents. Only a few are cool with the mark.
These are the possible things I could think of that the lecturer has done to the marks, but idk which of them actually happened.
1) The marking was very harsh. The lecturer was expecting very detailed answers and put heavy penalties on errors.
2) The course marks have been scaled down.
3) The percentage of the assessment items has been adjusted (i.e. different from what is indicated in the course outline).
4) The lecturer just took our midterm exam marks as the final marks (many ppl's marks are so close to or exactly the same as the midterm marks).
Backgrounds:
The course is relatively easy among all elec courses in terms of contents. Some of the assessments during the semester have already been made harder to suppress the marks. The final exam was standard and reasonable, with first half of the questions being straightforward and the second half being harder, and half of the cohort think it was easy while the other half think it was hard.
The final exam weighs 50% of the course. Some ppl who had got around 45/50 pre-exam ended up with PS or low CR, which means they've got less than 25/50 (50/100) in the final exam assuming no scaling. It is possible that the pass mark of the final is < 50, but I don't think they could lose that much in the exam.
I'm also doubting the motivations behind scaling down. Although the contents is easy, our final was not, and some ppl even had to skip 1 or 2 questions. Even so, most of us got further lower, pretty much like HD->DN, DN->CR or even PS. Btw, I don't think there would be many HDs even if it's not scaled, so it's really confusing why he did that.