Using the bell curve approach, the marks of students are converted into percentiles that are then compared with each other. To keep the comparison fair and keep the competitive spirit alive, a bell curve is often used to evaluate performances (at least that’s how it was when I was in college). However, using it, you can not differentiate between someone who got 81 and someone who got 95 (as both would get the A grade). Now there is nothing wrong in this kind of grading system. But since you set a really easy paper, everyone scored above 80 and got the A grade. According to your grading system, anyone who gets above 80 out of 100 gets an A grade. Suppose you have a class of 100 students that appear for an exam. This means that even if your team is the best team ever and you’re all superheroes, only a handful of you would get the top rating, most of the people in your team would get an average rating, and a handful will get the lowest rating. Suppose you work in a team of 100 members and your manager tells you that your performance will be relative to others and will be evaluated on the bell curve. Now before I jump in on how to create a bell curve in Excel, let’s get a better understanding of the concept by taking an example. It is often used during employee performance appraisals or during evaluation in exams ( ever heard – “You will be graded on the curve?”). In the bell curve, the highest point is the one that has the highest probability of occurring, and the probability of occurrences goes down on either side of the curve. Hearing her insightful remark reminded me why I like listening at these meetings more than speaking.A bell curve (also known as normal distribution curve) is a way to plot and analyze data that looks like a bell curve. One reader at today's meeting, an artist, compared the surgical concision of Barnes' writing to the way abstract painters leave out enough in their work so our imaginations can roam free. But his book is bursting with sentences, paragraphs, pages worthy of quoting. If able to narrow down my choices, I'd use Barnes' exquisite prose to entice you. The brilliance of " The Sense Of An Ending" makes me wish my blog had enough reach that using that evangelistic hyperbole would bring this book to every thinking person. You know that old magical thinking bit that goes something like this? " If only everyone could read/hear/see/be exposed to (fill in the blank), the world would be a better place". And it was an improbably richer experience the second time. ![]() Though in the past I'd used my book journal or any notes taken to refresh my memory when attending meetings to discuss other books I'd previously read, the glow of Barnes' novel was still so fresh I relished the idea of re-reading it. I really wanted to hear what smart readers had to say about this 2011 novel that had moved me so much I gifted it to both my sister and wife last Christmas.Įarly today, fifteen months after finishing it the first time and writing the above post, almost exactly one year after that missed meeting, I re-read the book - a different club picked it for a meeting held this afternoon. ![]() I was dismayed when another commitment prevented me from attending a book club meeting to discuss Julian Barnes' " The Sense Of An Ending" last September.
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