[QuarterReptile]

I went from a grade-inflating US university to a semester in Spain where 50% was passing, passing was the goal, and the grades reflected that.

It was all fine until a computer networking course with a policy of not returning tests or test grades until the midterm, when we discovered that no one was doing better than 29%, and median was probably 20%. The whole section pretty much freaked out, and for a week no learning happened until the professor finally implied that, due to his poor English skills, only near-verbatim reproductions of the book's answer key were awarded any credit.