A distribution of scores in which almost the entire class scored very high,but a few students scored fairly low would be ______.

A) normally distributed
B) positively skewed
C) unskewed
D) negatively skewed

This distribution is negatively skewed because the bulk of the scores are high, with only a few low scores pulling the tail of the distribution towards the lower end. In a negatively skewed distribution, the mean is typically less than the median due to the influence of the low scores.