Don't give up if you did not do well on this exam.  If you give up on the course you will receive an F.  If you keep going it is unlikely that you will receive an F, and there is a good chance you can get a C-.  Students who do well on the programs and keep trying on the exam can do well.  

There will be 3 exams.  Each will be weighted equally.

The exam with answers is posted on the  exams page.

When students come to me with a grading error on an exam, I always wonder if I made a mistake or if the student altered the exam after I graded it.  Both possibilities are not very comfortable; I don't want to think I made mistakes, and I don't want to think students altered the exam.

I have a solution to this problem.  I copy a sampling of graded exams before I return them to students.  If a student brings an exam to me, it is one of the exams I copied, and the exam has been altered, the student receives an F in the course and will be reported to academic affairs.

Think about your odds of getting caught before you alter an exam.  I won't tell you how many exams I copy, but assume I copy 10% (that's only 3-5 exams in the average class), you have a 1 in 10 chance of failing the course because you are trying to raise your exam grade few percent.  The potential bad outcome significantly outweighs the potential good outcome.

** The letter grades in the spreadsheet below are approximate letter grades.  At the end of the semester I will assign a single letter grade for all of your exams, and a single letter grade for all of your projects.  Your course grade will be the average of these two letter grades.  For example, if you get a D (1.0) on the exams, and an A (4.0) on the assignments, your course grade will be a C+ (2.5).