Grading

• Examinations
  • No make-up exams unless I approve of reasons prior to the exam truetrue For exam-based classes:
    • All exams account for 80% of your final grade
    • First exam accounts for 20% of your final grade
    • Second exam accounts for another 20% of your final grade
    • The final exam accounts for 40% of your final grade
    For project-based classes:
    • All exams account for 50% of your final grade
    • All quizzes account for 25% of your final grade
    • The final exam accounts for 25% of your final grade
  • All exams are open book and open notes, but no cheating is tolerated
  • All exams are, by default, multiple choice. However, I reserve the right to change the form of questions.
  • All exams have some ``extra credit'', see below
  • Each wrong answer in a multiple choice test means a deduction of 25% of points!
  • Letter grade equivalence: given $t_i$ is the total number of questions of exam $i$, $b_i$ is the baseline number of questionsof the same exam, and $r_i$ is the number of questions answered correctly:
    • define $s_i = r_i - \frac{b_i - r_i}{4}$
    • F: $s_i < \frac{b_i}{8}$
    • D: not F and $s_i < \frac{3\times b_i}{8}$
    • C: not D and $s_i < \frac{5\times b_i}{8}$
    • B: not C and $s_i < \frac{7\times b_i}{8}$
    • A: $s_i \ge \frac{7\times b_i}{8}$
• Homework Assignments/Projects
  • All homework assignments/projects account for 20% of your final grade
  • No late submission is accepted
  • I will use the last submission for grading
  • I reserve the right not to grade any submission that is not submitted according to specifications
  • Letter grade equivalence ($s_i$ is the score of a submission, $p_i$ is the number of points for the work):
    • F: $s_i < \frac{p_i}{8}$
    • D: not F and $s_i < \frac{3\times p_i}{8}$
    • C: not D and $s_i < \frac{5\times p_i}{8}$
    • B: not C and $s_i < \frac{7\times p_i}{8}$
    • A: $s_i \ge \frac{7\times p_i}{8}$
• Final grade
  • Based on weighted average of all exams and homework assignments/projects.
  • Letter grade is based on boundaries determined by weighted average of all exams and homework assignments
  • The following are the boundary lines:
    • F: less than 12.5%
    • D: at least 12.5% but below 37.5%
    • C: at least 37.5% but below 62.5%
    • B: at least 62.5% but below 87.5%
    • A: at least 87.5%