Are marks scaled up/down according to a bell curve?

[soli_rainy]

Will marks be scaled down if so many people get high marks, in order to ensure that less than 20% of students get an H1?

[Shenz0r]

Depends on the subject.

[mahler004]

Will marks be scaled down if so many people get high marks, in order to ensure that less than 20% of students get an H1?

There's no quota for grades at unimelb, like there is at other universities. That doesn't mean that some departments/subjects won't work on a quota system. Anecdotally, I've heard this is pretty common in Arts subjects (at least in the ones I took) and much less common in science subjects. I've been in subjects where 50% of the class got a H1.

Most subjects don't seem to be scaled. In science subjects scaling up seems more common then scaling down. Scaling to a bell cure doesn't seem too common.