GRADING CRITERIA
Physics 231C, Spring 2013
Grading Scale:
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4.0 |
92% |
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3.5 |
84% |
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3.0 |
76% |
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2.5 |
68% |
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2.0 |
60% |
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1.5 |
52% |
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1.0 |
44% |
Grading weights:
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Best two Midterm Exams (20% each)
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40 % |
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Final Exam |
35 % |
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Homework (LON-CAPA) |
25 % |
- There are bonus questions in the online lecture folders. You should be able to answer these after completing the assigned reading from the required text and watching the online lectures. These bonus questions are programmed to look like exam questions, as such, they are all multiple choice. In addition, some of these bonus questions are questions used on previous exams for this course and its traditional equivalent. Lon-Capa's feedback option is disabled, so unlike regular homework problems, Lon-Capa will not tell you if you have the correct answer until after the due date. In addition, the discussion board on these questions has been disable, they are meant for you to work out yourself after having read the assigned reading and watched the online lectures. All points earned here will be added to your total homework points as a homework bonus (scores over 100% are allowed). Note: since these problems are programmed to look like exam problems, Lon-Capa will report them in your grade summary as exam points -- they are *NOT* exam points. The bonus questions can only help you -- if you answer a bonus question incorrectly, it will not count against you.
- Midterm exams: Maximum score on each midterm: 50 points. The midterm exams will have
correction exams as a homework. 30% of the positive difference between the correction exam
and the original exam will be added to your original exam score as bonus.
Only students taking the original exam will have access to the correction exam. Scores on the original exam will not be available until after the correction exam due date.
- Final Exam: Maximum score on the final: 100 points. The final exam will not have a correction exam.
Four single sides of US letter sized help sheets are allowed on the final exam: three from the
midterms and one from the last block of the class.
- This grading scale might be lowered slightly, in your favor, but it will not be raised.
- No extensions will be given for HW without exceptional circumstances. Students are responsible for finding a site from which they can enter their answers. "The net was down when I tried to enter my problems from Ohio" or "I couldn't get LON-CAPA to work from my parent's computer" are not valid excuses.
- Scoring system and final average formula for the course
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