Your grade in the course will be based on your performance in your group reports submitted in lab, on the tutorial homeworks, on the WebAssign homeworks, and on the exams with the following
weights:
| Tutorial Homeworks |
WebAssign Homeworks |
Laboratories |
Midterm 1 |
Midterm 2 |
Final |
15% |
15% |
15% |
15% |
15% |
25% |
Final letter grades for the course will be based on an absolute scale. The course score will be calculated to the nearest integer. No curving of any kind will be employed unless the combined average exam score (computed as the combined average of all midterm and final exams taken to date) is less than 70%. In such cases, the grades on the most recent exam will be adjusted by additively raising the exam scores to allow the combined exam average to meet the target minimum of 70%.
The break points for the various grade levels are:
| 93% ≤ |
A |
≤ 100% |
| 90% ≤ |
A− |
< 93% |
| 87% ≤ |
B+ |
< 90% |
| 83% ≤ |
B |
< 87% |
| 80% ≤ |
B− |
< 83% |
| 77% ≤ |
C+ |
< 80% |
| 70% ≤ |
C |
< 77% |
| 60% ≤ |
D |
< 70% |
| 0% ≤ |
F |
< 60% |
You can access your scores for completed assignments on the course web page grades link on the course menu bar. You are responsible for verifying all of your scores (with the exception of the final exam score) before the last lecture for the course.
