Its even more annoying that most of the people I talked to failed the precal exam. That says so much about the program. I had an 88, and made a 58 on the exam and it brought my grade down ten points. I'm just waiting for my parents to see it. Sighs.
But all across the board people failed it. And in AP Physics (for the time I was in it), the curves were huge. Like, 40 points because without it everyone would have failed. That also irritates the crap out of me. Because if you need to have a huge curve like that, its not the students, its the teachers.
Yep, as you said there will always be the complainers (ie: the kids in my english this year and last year complaining about how its too hard and too much work. English last year was so easy to me, and yeah, it was a lot of work but you shouldn't be making a 60 if you did said work. And this year they were like "three essays due on the same day!!" but you have three weeks to do it "that's so hard!!" I mean just quit then honestly) but when everyone, including those of us who do our work, make bad grades then its kinda an issue with the department itself and not the subject matter.