Wednesday, February 25, 2009

Exam 1 Grades Discussion

So, as a group, both classes performed well on the exam.

The average grade (before any extra credit) was almost exactly 74 for both classes. In terms of a distribution, letter grades broke down like this:

A: 10%
B: 25%
C: 33%
D: 22%
F: 10%

For those of you who did well, keep it up. For those of you who did not do as well as you might have hoped, you need not despair. It's important to keep in mind that this exam (intentionally) counts less than the remaining two. Now that you've been through the first third of the course and seen the structure and format of the exams, you have a chance to adjust your studies and improve over the next two exams.

Literally, three quarters of your grade is undetermined, so there is a substantial opportunity to improve.