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| Assessment |
The University policy on grading and related matters is described in the Calendar.
In determining the overall grade for this course, the following components and weights will be used.
| Assignments: | 30% |
| Midterm Test: | 30% |
| Final Examination: | 40% |
The midterm test will be held on Monday, March 7, from 5:00 pm until 6:30 pm ST 135.
Make-up tests will not be given under any circumstances. If you are unable to attend (and have a valid, documented excuse), you will receive a no-mark and your the proportion of your final grade made of up of your final exam will be adjusted accordingly.
This course will have a Registrar's scheduled final examination.
A percentage grade (ratio of number of marks awarded to the number of marks available) will be computed for each assignment. Your overall assignment grade will be computed as an unweighted average of all of the percentage grades that you have received.
Similarly, your grade for each of the term tests and for the final examination will be computed as a percentage grade, using the ratio of the number of marks you received to the number of marks that were available on the test.
An overall percentage grade will then be computed, using the percentage grades awarded for assignments and tests, as a weighted average using the weightings listed above.
Finally, the overall percentage grade will be converted to a letter grade using the following conversion. (This is the only letter grade that will be used, in this course.)
| From: | To: | = Letter | From: | To: | = Letter | |||||
| 95% | 100% | A+ | 65% | 69% | C+ | |||||
| 90% | 94% | A | 60% | 64% | C | |||||
| 85% | 89% | A− | 55% | 59% | C− | |||||
| 80% | 84% | B+ | 50% | 54% | D+ | |||||
| 75% | 79% | B | 40% | 49% | D | |||||
| 70% | 74% | B− | 0% | 39% | F | |||||
Of course, mistakes are sometimes made during marking, and students should ask about marking if it seems possible that an error has been made.
When doing so, please begin with the person who marked the work. This will be one of the teaching assistants if the work concerned is an assignment, and it will be the course instructor for the term test or final examination. If the question is a relatively minor error (marks added incorrectly, obvious mistake, etc.), just show the error to the appropriate TA or instructor. For anything else, submit your paper along with a written description of why your answer deserves more marks. Obviously, you should look at the posted solution to the problem in question beforehand.
If you are not satisfied with the information you have been given (or the action that has been taken) after asking about the mark received on a quiz, then of course you should discuss this with your instructor after that.
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