grade on a curve (English, verb)
expansion: grade on a curve (third-person singular simple present grades on a curve, present participle grading on a curve, simple past and past participle graded on a curve)
Senses:
glosses: To use a grading system based on the scale of performance of a group to normalize a right-skewed grade distribution (with more lower scores) into a bell curve, so that more can receive higher grades, regardless of their actual knowledge of the subject; to curve a grade.
glosses: To compare the members of a set or group by using a relative scale, based on performance relative to other members.
tags: broadly
Forms:
form: grades on a curve
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: grading on a curve
tags: participle
present
form: graded on a curve
tags: participle
past
form: graded on a curve
tags: past