Instructions for inclass students

Exams

All exams will be taken in lecture. Students may bring a single 8.5X11 sheet of paper, containing any notes you can fit onto it. Feel free to use both sides of the page.

How We Curve Grades

The "raw score" is the percent of correct answers on an individual assignment. To produce the "curved score" for that assignment, raw scores are adjusted so that the class median is 85 and the maximum is 100. Then the student gets the maximum of the raw and curved scores. Thus, the curve never reduces a student's score.

For each student, the curved scores of the various assignments are averaged to get the final score. We assign letter grades subjectively, based on these final scores.

To see the latest distribution of grades, click on the link below:

grade curve [updated 06 May 2014 14:20:11.]

This will take you to a list that you can use to look up your own grade. The columns are labeled as follows:

ex1, ex2, ex3, etc: Scores on exercises
exam1, exam2, final: Scores on exams
total: Total curved score
gr: Provisional grade

Scroll down the list until you find your own scores, and then look in the right column to find your grade.