About ICS 10A Course Grades

for Spring , 2006

After looking over the distribution of scores, and recognizing the difficulty of the exams, I lowered the cut-off points between grades by 10 points from the ones published in the Course Reference.

The spreadsheet is best read using Internet Explorer; it is legible--but not as legible--in other browsers: The Excel-to-HTML format conversion in Excel has a decidedly IE bias!

The scores on the course spreadsheet are in order of the last four digits of the student ID number (the first column). After your ID is a flag indicating whether you are enrolled through Extension. Then come your labs scores and their total. Next comes the total possible number of lab points you could earn (you can't go over 100% of the total possible number of lab points) and the number of points you attempted (no credit for labs you didn't turn in!). The following column is the percent of the possible lab points you lost; then appears the average percentage of points lost in your section (which this quarter is the same for all, as we had only one TA). The next column is your total lab score adjusted to compensate you if you had a TA that was harder than the easiest TA. (In general, the harder your TA was on average the higher your adjustment.) This quarter, the adjusted score will be the same as the original score, as we had only one grader. Remember scores of 5 count as a kind of extra credit; for purposes of computing each lab score, 4 points are considered 100% of the possible points for that lab.

Next is your midterm score and the final exam score. Then appears the course total; it was computed out of 100 points, weighted to the values published in the Course Reference.

Next, your letter grade appears; the Registrar will change it to P or NP, as appropriate, if you are taking the course Pass/No Pass.

Do check over your scores; if you find any which are incorrect and that would change your final grade in the course, contact me; since my schedule during the summer tends to be erratic, it’s probably best to send me e-mail about the problem. I will have the finals in my office; make an appointment with me via email if you wish to review yours.

I've also provided some statistics on each of the assignments and exams, and about course grade distribution.

Have an enjoyable summer!

Norman Jacobson