Re:I shall answer the question! (Score 2, Interesting)

It also makes me wonder whether this is a 'weeding' course where having too many passing grades would cause the school to have too many sophmores going forward. If they've intentionally over-admitted freshmen in order to filter out the best ones for the sophmore class, having a group that significantly increases the number of passing grades in one of the key killer classes might be a serious administrative problem. Given that a curve could still fail students with numerically high average grades, folks tend to get far more bent out of shape by scaling a %85 to a D- than by scaling a %32 to a B+. A broad based and effective facebook study group could result in far too many numerically passing grades and need to be suppressed...