340 Fall 2005
Midterm 1 grades
As of October 14

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

The exam with answers is posted on the  exams page.

You have one week (until 10/24/05) to contest the grading of this exam. If you are unclear about how I graded a problem, or feel the test or grading was unfair, please contact me.  If you do not talk to me or send me email within that week, I will assume that you think I have done a fair and accurate job of grading your exam and you will lose your right to contest the grade. 


Altering Graded Exam Policy

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 weighted average of these two letter grades (60% for tests 40% for assignments). For example, if you get a C on exams and an A- on projects, your final letter grade would be (2.0 * .6 + 3.7 * .4) = 2.7 (B-),



PIN

Grade

%

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

Minutes



100

5

5

5

8

8

8

10

15

16

50

303

A

103

5

5

5

8

10

8

10

15

16

50

100

A

100

5

3

5

8

10

8

10

15

16

50

350

A

95

5

5

5

8

8

4

10

15

16

50

411

A

94

5

5

5

8

8

8

10

15

11

50

378

A

93

5

5

4

3

8

8

10

15

16

36

253

A

93

5

5

5

8

7

8

10

15

11

50

152

A

93

5

5

5

3

8

7

10

15

16

22

346

A

93

5

5

5

3

8

8

10

14

16

44

942

A-

91

5

5

5

3

8

8

9

14

16

50

788

A-

90

5

5

5

3

8

8

10

15

13

47

442

A-

90

5

5

5

8

8

4

8

15

14

45

731

A-

90

5

5

3

6

8

8

8

15

14

50

681

A-

89

5

5

5

6

8

4

10

12

16

50

246

A-

89

5

5

5

3

4

8

10

15

16

50

124

B+

86

5

5

4

3

7

4

10

15

16

50

623

B+

86

5

5

5

3

8

8

10

15

10

44

473

B+

85

5

5

5

3

8

8

8

15

11

50

559

B+

84

5

5

5

3

8

8

8

15

10

50

394

B+

84

5

5

5

8

4

8

10

12

10

50

181

B

81

5

5

5

3

5

8

3

15

16

50

736

B

80

5

5

5

8

0

8

10

15

8

50

589

B

80

5

5

3

8

10

4

10

15

4

50

219

B

79

5

5

5

3

5

7

10

15

8

50

822

B

79

5

5

4

3

8

7

10

15

6

50

413

B

78

5

5

4

3

6

4

9

15

11

46

901

B-

75

5

5

5

3

5

8

0

15

14

50

856

B-

74

5

5

5

3

6

4

10

10

11

50

709

B-

73

5

5

5

3

7

7

9

4

13

47

188

B-

73

5

4

2

8

8

4

6

15

6

40

467

C+

71

5

5

5

3

8

6

5

4

16

50

713

C+

71

5

5

4

2

7

8

6

4

16

50

567

C+

69

3

5

5

2

8

6

10

4

12

50

340

C+

68

5

4

3

3

8

2

10

4

15

50

697

C+

68

3

5

4

2

7

4

8

15

6

43

576

C+

66

5

5

3

3

7

4

10

10

6

50

912

C+

65

5

5

5

3

10

4

10

4

6

50

428

C+

65

5

5

3

3

6

8

10

4

8

37

542

C

64

4

5

3

3

8

6

6

4

12

50

989

C

61

5

3

5

2

5

4

9

0

16

50

524

C-

59

3

5

5

3

8

6

5

4

8

38

107

F

43

5

5

3

3

7

2

3

0

6

38

218

F

28

3

3

3

2

0

0

5

0

6

50

766

F

0










0

906

F

0










0

763

F

0










0

694

F

0










0