CS302 Final Grades

James S. Plank

Grading Breakdown

I anticipate the breakdown of grading to be:

Exams -- 45 percent. The exams are weighted equally.
Homeworks (i.e. your lab grades) -- 45 percent.
Lab and class attendance: 10 percent. This is calculated as follows: You may have two unexcused absences from class. You may have zero unexcused absences from lab. After that, each unexcused absence from class or lab results in a 2 percent deduction up to a total of 10 percent.

Exams

Exams are handled as follows. Your score is given to you as a number. On the exam cover page, I will tell you the scores that correspond to A, B, C, D and F. When it comes time to calculate final grades, I will convert the exam-scores to final-grade-scores as follows:

If you received an A, then suppose your exam score was s, the minimum A score was A_min, and the maximum A score was A_max. Your final-grade-score is:

90 + 10 * (s - A_min) / ( A_max- A_min).
If you received an B, then suppose your exam score was s, the minimum B score was B_min, and the maximum B score was B_max. Your final-grade-score is:

80 + 10 * (s - B_min) / ( B_max- B_min).
If you received an C, then suppose your exam score was s, the minimum C score was C_min, and the maximum C score was C_max. Your final-grade-score is:

70 + 10 * (s - C_min) / ( C_max- C_min).
If you received an D, then suppose your exam score was s, the minimum D score was D_min, and the maximum D score was D_max. Your final-grade-score is:

60 + 10 * (s - D_min) / ( D_max- D_min).
If you received an F, then suppose your exam score was s, and the maximum F score was F_max. Your final-grade-score is:

60 * s / F_max.

Grading Scale

The grading scale is as follows:

A+: 95 - 100
A: 90 - 95
A-: 87 - 90
B+: 83 - 87
B: 80 - 83
B-: 77 - 80
C+: 73 - 77
C: 70 - 73
C-: 67 - 70
D+: 63 - 67
D: 60 - 63
D-: 57 - 60
F: 0-57