Grades

G R A D E S

Your grade for this course will be determined by the following:

Excursions - Live!

Hour exams - 3/4 @ 100 pts             300 pts
Online quizzes                         100 
Final exam   (comprehensive)           200         
Total                                  600 pts

There will be four hour exams (for Excursions Live! ). Your lowest score will be discarded and only the other three will be used (No, a lower score on the quizzes or on the Final exam cannot be substituted). This also means there are no make-ups for the hour exams. Students in the Live! class do not have a mid-term exam.

Excursions - OnLine

Midterm exam                           200 pts
Online quizzes                         100 
Final exam   (comprehensive)           200         
Total                                  500 pts

The Midterm exam (for ExcursionsOnLine) will be available from Feb 28 to the deadline of noon on March 6. You will have only one attempt at the midterm. After you complete the midterm, send me an eMail message telling me you took the exam with no outside help -- no book, no notes, no personal assistants. There will be an equations sheet but the midterm and final are to be taken on your own! The Final exam will be available from May 2 until the deadline of noon on May 8. As with the midterm, you will have only one attempt at the final. After you complete the final, send me an eMail message telling me you took the exam with no outside help -- no book, no notes, no personal assistants. The final is comprehensive and will contain some material that was also covered on the midterm. Students in the OnLine class do not have the four hour exams.

Online Quizzes: At the end of the homework solutions for each chapter, there are "typical multiple choice questions". These same questions also appear as WebCT quizzes. They are open book, open answer quizzes! They may be taken or retaken a maximum of five times if you like. For credit, they must be taken before 1300 (one o'clock) on the date of the corresponding hour exam as given on the calendar. There is no reason that anyone should not receive 100 points for these Online Quizzes!

You can link to the Online Quizzes from here or from the Course Calendar page.

In my opinion, there are two objective methods of grading.

One can always determine grades strictly "on a curve".

(e. g.,

15% will get A's;
20%, B's;

30%, C's;

20%, D's; and

15%, F's).

One can also determine grades strictly by a predetermined number (e. g.,

100 - 91, A
90 - 81, B

80 - 71, C

70 - 61, D

Think of these as "guaranteed minima" for grades

100 - 91, A

90 - 81, B

80 - 71, C

70 - 61, D

I may lower the breakpoints

but I will not raise them.

Homework

Course Description

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