Below the median

Unless scores follow a standard (or any other symmetric) distribution

It's a satirical account, that's not a real politician.

There are plenty of them out there that are this dumb though.

Looks like a real educational problem.

We just need a few more to see if there’s a trend.

You're probably one of today's lucky 10,000.

Wait, this isn't satire?

Edit: I commented too soon. It's satire.

Ashktually half people below the median.

I was born extremely smart. I always tested way at the top of the curve... far superior to all my peers.

25%!? That's nothing. Half of people are below average. That's twice of what you quoted!

My state'a standardized test says kids are "at risk" if they aren't in the top 40% of the test. The top 50% could all be traditional "a-b" students. But because they weren't in the top 80% of a-b students they are at risk for failing academically.... It's so asinine and disheartening. The last half of the year is devoted to this idiotic test. Kids could be learning stuff that will enrich themselves... Instead they are learnig how to take a test better.

Check the math? What do I look like, a numbertician??

There will always be 25% in the bottom quartile, regardless of how well any students perform.

As Nougat said, this has nothing to do with passing or failing and is just a consequence of measuring performance. If 100 people take a test and the lowest 25 scorers all have a 95 out of 100 points then they are still in the bottom quartile regardless of the fact that every single student passed with flying colors.

Showing a bell curve with no context means nothing.

I’ve been graded on a curve, and I’ve done it myself a couple of times. IMO, it’s usually a sign of a bad class (too much material being crammed in) or a bad teacher (didn’t get the concepts across to the majority of the students).

That said, it’s usually done when it’s needed to prevent a significant portion of the class from failing. I remember a chem exam I took where a 16/100 was a C.

The basic idea is that grades are normally distributed (ie a bell curve) which allows you to find the average grade range and shift the letter grade (eg a C or C+). There’s some professors who take the idea too far and rather than working off of an actual normal distribution try to fit the procedure to a simply skewed distribution or use it to pull down an 85/100 to a C, but in my experience that’s the exception to the rule, especially in math/science courses.

Also, iirc this is a parody account.